2011 membership application - Rehoboth Beach Film Society

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Rehoboth
Beach Film
Society
Publication
Gov e r nor ’ s L e t t e r
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Dear Film Enthusiasts,
Welcome to the largest and oldest film festival in Delaware! Celebrating its fourteenth year,
the Rehoboth Beach Independent Film Festival proves itself to be a cultural treasure as it once
again dazzles audiences with creative features and films.
Catering to both American and international tastes, the Festival presents a wide array of
independent films including shorts, documentaries, and features, as well as the opportunity
to speak with celebrity guests and attend informative seminars. From young film buffs in the
Children Cinema Corner to emerging filmmakers at the Regional Showcase, everyone can have
fun and enjoy themselves at this festival.
The Rehoboth Beach Independent Film Festival inspires audiences with its avant-garde
selections; promoting the creative, educational, and thought provoking possibilities available in
the cinematic arts.
Whether you are a resident of or a visitor to the State of Delaware, I know you will be enriched
by this outstanding cultural event!
Sincerely,
Jack Markell
Governor
W e lcom e L e t t e r
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Dear Friends and Supporters of the Festival:
As we grow up, we come to realize what is most important, what is of
value. In a “sophisticated” society with rampant commercialism and all
kinds of spin, learning what is really of value is not easy.
Eric Kafka,
President, Board of Directors
Rehoboth Beach Film Society
Film Festival
Budget
Revenue:
Festival Support
Grants
Sales
Ticket sales
Other
TOTAL
$ 36,400
$ 11,900
$ 14,465
$ 142,500
$ 4,345
$ 209,610
Expenses:
Advertising
Box Office Film expenses
Insurance
Office and Other
Payroll Expenses
Phone & Utilities
Postage
Printing
Rent
Sales
Travel & Guests
TOTAL
Net Income
$ 17,000
$ 18,000
$ 52,500
$ 4,000
$ 10,500
$ 58,000
$ 2,700
$ 3,500
$ 28,000
$ 23,000
$ 6,500
$
500
$224,200
[$14,590]
How can you help
bridge the gap?
•Become a member
•Renew at a higher level
•Become a Sponsor
•Purchase a program ad
•Sponsor a film
•Support RBFS fundraising
activities throughout the year
Your support is appreciated!
My home is in coastal Delaware. The area has a
lot to offer. It does not, however, have everything.
Fourteen years ago some local residents realized
that something was missing. They took action and
formed the first Film Festival bringing together
those who wanted to experience the art of film; films
which were not the usual star-studded Hollywood
fare, but are “liquid literature” which have depth of
character and of thought. That effort has grown into
a year-round non-profit organization, the Rehoboth
Beach Film Society. It has a Board of Directors and
a staff dedicated to preserving it as a festival for the
people; not as a jewel in the industry, not a platform
for celebrities, and not as a money-maker. Our goal
is to consistently serve the needs of those who
enjoy the artistic and educational potential of film
in a convenient, comfortable, and affordable setting.
We do this at the annual festival, and we contribute
extensive film programs throughout the year
through outreach efforts to diverse communities in
the coastal area.
The Board is responsible for assuring that any
income is wisely and ethically employed to further
the organizational goals to serve the public. We,
in tandem with our staff, strive to improve. We
are proud to say that RBFS is a solid, reliable
organization amid a fluid visual arts industry.
We are known as a consistent provider of quality
programs, for developing effective relationships
of cooperation, and for squeezing to derive the
most from our resources. The Board is currently
considering the best ways to grow our Society to
the next level. We are currently looking at who we
find ourselves to be, and who we want to become
as an organization over time. There is no thought of
altering our signature program, the Rehoboth Beach
Independent Film Festival at Midway Theaters, but
we will consider new affiliations, perhaps our name
will be retouched, and place, venue, and programs
are open to discussion. We welcome your use of the
comment sheets, or our website to channel your
ideas and suggestions.
Check out the Film Festival budget and note that
the Festival does not pay for itself, the annual
budget which includes grants and memberships,
contributions, and sponsorships which cover the
deficit and pays for operating costs. We are deeply
indebted to the Delaware Division of the Arts, and
the many local organizations and individuals who
contribute to us, especially in this difficult economic
climate. Please make a point of thanking our
sponsors. And, to those who serve on the Board
of Directors, or work with our Executive Director,
Sue Early, to make our Society flow, our heart-felt
appreciation. One cannot look around the theaters
or the tent without seeing scores of dedicated
volunteers. They are here because of what we mean
to them, and the essence of who we are is due to
their generosity. All these people join you, our
customers, to make up our family.
Circling back to my initial point about finding value
in our busy lives, we hope that as you delve into this
annual RBFS-constructed celluloid “escape from
reality” that you appreciate that we do our best
to form this experience for the thousands of filmkin who gather here. We rely on your allegiance,
recommendations, and support. If you consider this
of value to you - we appreciate any form of support
that you choose to extend now or in the future.
Thanks in advance, and enjoy this
film buffet along with me.
Eric Kafka,
President, Board of Directors
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The Rehoboth Beach Film Society strives to connect people with the art of film. That connection is
made by presenting quality exhibition of excellent films of varying formats, categories, genres, subject
matter, style, etc. A bonus outcome is that Film Society programs also connect people with people.
The Rehoboth Beach Independent Film Festival, the organization’s signature event, brings people of
diverse backgrounds together in a cheerful environment (even if all the films may not be considered
upbeat). During the five day event, you may wait in line to attend a screening, participate in a Country
Spotlight dance performance, converse with a filmmaker at a Festival seminar, sample a new brew at
the Dogfish Head tasting, or perhaps, volunteer. In any of these situations, you will inevitably meet and
talk with someone new. Most often these interactions will enhance your Festival experience, and may
even develop into friendships.
These types of events continue beyond the Festival. If you enjoy film, if you enjoy participating in or
listening to thought-provoking, post-film discussions, and if you enjoy meeting people, think about
attending other Film Society programs held throughout the year. The back cover provides a list of
available film programs and our website, www.rehobothfilm.com, provides all the details. If you are
interested in volunteering, there is always a task that will suit your interest while helping the Film Society.
Sue Early
Executive Director
I hope this Festival is the kick-off for your journey of connecting to the art of film, to new people, and to the Rehoboth Beach
Film Society throughout the year.
Sue Early
Executive Director
As Joe See’s It:
While everything is a highlight, here are some items not to be missed:
The Country Spotlight this year is on France. After highlighting countries in which the film industry may
not be widely known, it was interesting to turn our sights to what might be the most recognizable foreign
language film industry to the American public. The breadth and scope of the industry is showcased
through films as well as the seminar which will provide valuable information on the subject.
This year’s sidebars (thematic programming) are: “Seeing Green”, “Global Lens” and “Regional
Showcase”. Seeing Green highlights those films that look inside ecological issues that subtly (or not)
show the viewers the need for change to ensure that the planet continues to exist for a long time to
come. “Global Lens” is an outreach of The Global Film Initiative, an organization that ensures the
voices of under-represented countries will continue to be heard, and seen. The Global Lens Film
Series 2011 is one of the activities that brings international film to the masses. Kyrgyzstan, Iran, and
Bosnia-Herzegovina are the countries being represented in the festival. The Regional Showcase once
again shows that good filmmaking does exist in our region as evident by 5 wonderful films including a
feature made right here in Rehoboth Beach (The Dish and the Spoon).
Joe Bilancio
Festival Program Director
Rehoboth Beach
Independent Film Festival
Seminars are always an interesting part of the Festival and this year is no exception. As part of this year’s Country Spotlight:
France, the Lumiere, New Wave and the Next Wave seminar takes a look at the French cinema industry. A Conversation with
Jason Butler Harner is sure to provide valuable insight to anyone interested in pursuing a career in acting, or just learning
about what it takes. Sex(y) in the Cinema shows the evolution of sex and sexual topics on film and how changes have been
made. Rating organizations and social acceptance continue to put their mark on the issue and will continue to do so for
many years to come.
So as usual I urge you to step outside your world and immerse yourself in the Festival’s films, seminars, and sidebars for a
journey to very different places…if only for a few hours at a time.
Happy travels!
Joe Bilancio
Festival Program Director
Rehoboth Beach Independent Film Festival
Festival Directors Welcome
As Sue See’s It:
S p onsor A ppr ec i at ion
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Production of the Rehoboth Beach Independent Film Festival is made possible through the
support of many businesses, and individuals. The Rehoboth Beach Film Society thanks the
following sponsors for their generous support which collectively helps make this Festival a
wonderful, cultural event that is enjoyed by several thousand film buffs:
Media Sponsor
Presenting Sponsor
Corporate Sponsors
Accommodations Sponsor
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Arena’s Café /5 Points
Metro Technical Services
Arena’s Café on the highway
Tanger Outlet Center
Arena’s Deli & Bar
WXPN FM
Cape Gazette
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Applied Bank
Prudential Gallo REALTORS
Atlantic Horizons
Summer House Restaurant
Councilmember George Cole
[Sussex County Council]
The SEA BOVA Associates, Inc.
Delmarva Online
United Distributors of Delaware
Delmarva Public Radio
Wilmington Savings Fund Society
Timothy’s at the Beach
William F. McManus and David P. Nelson
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Boardwalk Builders
Curtis J. Leciejewski DDS MAGD
Nicola Pizza
Nourish
Community Bank Delaware
RDM Development Group
Delaware Electric Cooperative
The Sun Group of Businesses
Hole By Hole
Wawa Food Market #849
Jack Lingo Realtor
Weston Woods
Jakes Seafood Restaurant
S p onsor A ppr ec i at ion
N Supporting Sponsors N
E v e ry t h i ng you n e e d t o k now
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Everything you need to know
about the Rehoboth Beach Independent Film Festival
DATES: Wednesday, November 9 – Sunday, November 13
Theaters: All films will be screened at the Movies at
Midway complex in the Midway Shopping Center on Highway One
(across from the Super Fresh, just north of Rehoboth Beach).
Thursday, Nov 10 through Sunday Nov 13
beginning at 8:00 am - till the start of the
last film.
All members can purchase tickets beginning at 8:00 am. Film
PARKING:
Free parking is available at the Midway Shopping
Buff and Student members may purchase tickets each day for
Center. Please be considerate and park in defined spaces. Cars
films being screened that day. Starting at 7:00 pm on Friday,
parked in non-defined spaces may be towed by the theater owners
Film Buffs and Student members can purchase tickets for the
at the car owner’s expense.
remaining days of the Festival.
SCHEDULING YOUR FILMS: When selecting films to
films being screened that day.
see, please make sure there is at least 20 minutes from the ending
Note: A current RBFS membership card must be presented
of one film until the beginning of the next film as everyone is
and can only be used by the person whose name is on the card.
required to exit through the exterior doors and re-enter at the front
[Additional identification may be required]
Non-members can purchase tickets, beginning at 9:00 am, for
of the building as per Delaware State Fire Marshal regulations.
TICKET SALES LOCATIONS:
Pre-Festival: Ticket sales for eligible RBFS members take place
**Ticket sales close at the start of the last scheduled film each day.**
Ticket sales policy:
In order to help ensure a more
at the RBFS office [107 Truitt Ave., Rehoboth Beach]
equitable distribution of tickets and greater access to films for all
During the Festival: All ticket sales take place at the Festival
RBFS individual members may purchase [2] tickets
Box Office in the Big Tent located behind the Midway Shopping
attendees, the following policies apply to all Festival ticket sales:
per film title.
RBFS couple members may purchase [4] tickets
Center. Access is from the parking lot behind the stores, or via the
per film title.
“cut-through” between the Duron Paint store and JavaByte Cafe.
Non-members may purchase [2] tickets per film
title on the day of the screening only.
WHO CAN PURCHASE TICKETS
AND WHEN?
Pre-Festival Sales: [Oct 24 – Nov 4] at the RBFS office [107 Truitt
TICKET PRICES: A separate ticket must be purchased for
each film. [Please note tickets are non-refundable]
Ave., Rehoboth Beach] from 9:30 am – 4:30 pm, Monday – Friday.
Contributing Director, Director, and Executive Producer
members are eligible to purchase tickets during the Pre-Festival
sales period.
General Admission:
Senior Admission: $9.00 per ticket
$8.00 per ticket
(60 years of age or older)
Youth Admission: $8.00 per ticket
(11 years old or younger)
Wednesday, Nov 9
Beginning 12:30 pm: Associate Producer members (only) may
Student membership: (must have current photo student ID)
$8.00 per ticket
purchase tickets for the entire Festival.
Beginning 2:00 pm: Film Buff members may purchase tickets
EXCHANGE FEE:
for Wednesday films only.
ticket exchanges if you decide to change your screening time or
Beginning 3:00 pm: The general public may purchase films for
film selection. An exchange must be conducted at least one hour
Wednesday films.
in advance of the start time printed on the ticket being turned in.
There is a $1.00 processing fee for all
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Theatre Lighting: Each theater’s lights
Associate Producers, Film Buffs, Student members, and the general
are programmed to partially illuminate at the start of the
public may purchase tickets at the RBFS office [107 Truitt Ave.,
credits and then fully illuminate when the credits are over. For your
Rehoboth Beach] for Wed, Nov 9 films only. The terms of the Ticket
safety, it is best to remain seated until the lights are on full strength.
Sales Policy (on previous page) apply to purchases for Locals Night.
PRIORITY SEATING:
Theatre TEMPERATURES: Temperatures in each
Certain membership and sponsor
theater will fluctuate due to the audience size and location of your
levels are entitled to priority seating as a corresponding benefit.
seat in relation to the fan. Dress in layers so you can adjust your
Please respect the policy of reserving a seat for you and one guest
clothing to be comfortable in a variety of temperatures. Remember
only. Only the priority seating badge holder may enter the theater in
to take any removed clothing with you, as well as personal trash.
advance. Your cooperation is appreciated.
THEATER TRASH REMOVAL:
We are glad you enjoyed
BECOMING A FILM SOCIETY MEMBER: If you
the buttery popcorn, refreshing beverages, and other delicious
are not a member, you may easily join the Rehoboth Beach Film
treats while watching your film. Please be sure to take your trash
Society and start enjoying your benefits right away by completing
with you as you exit the theater and deposit in a trash receptacle.
the membership form on page 99 and mailing it with your dues to
Volunteers will appreciate your consideration as they are not paid
the Film Society Office, registering in person at the Film Society
trash collectors.
Office, registering at the Membership Booth in the Big Tent during
THEATER HOUSE RULES:
the Festival, or registering online at any time.
1) Please understand that the Management of the Movies at
FOOD:
Enjoy food and beverages in the Big Tent throughout the
Midway will not allow backpacks, large bags, recording devices, or
Festival. This is a great place to relax, meet new friends, and share
outside beverages of any kind into the theater. To avoid potential
information about the great films you’ve seen! Alcoholic beverages
inconveniences, please refrain from bringing extra baggage.
may not leave the tent. Thank you for your cooperation.
2) The Delaware State Fire Marshal requires all audience members
RECYCLING:
Help us make this a Go Green festival by
disposing recyclables in the appropriate recycling containers in the
Big Tent. Thank you.
MERCHANDISE:
to exit each theater through the exterior door, not the hallway
entrance. Compliance is required by all regardless of the weather,
Film Society membership level, or the starting time of your next
film. Your cooperation is appreciated.
Inventory is limited so don’t wait to buy
this year’s Festival souvenirs. Take advantage of this opportunity to
3) Please be sure to turn off all electronic devices (cell phones,
beepers, etc) during film screenings.
purchase quality merchandise at reasonable prices for upcoming
4) No cameras or other recording devices may be used during film
holiday gifts.
screenings.
PAYMENT OPTIONS: Cash, Visa, or MasterCard
Theater Accessibility:
are accepted as payment for ticket sales, membership and
for assistance to the upstairs screening room. Ask any theater
merchandise. Checks are not accepted. Cash payment only at
employee for directions to the elevator.
the Beverage Booth please.
Lost & Found:
Elevators are available
If you’ve misplaced your glasses, think you
Pets: Please respect that pets are not permitted in
left a sweater on a Theater chair, or you found keys in the parking
the Big Tent. A professionally registered service dog
lot, please go to the Lost & Found box at the Information Booth in
may accompany its owner.
the Big Tent. All discovered materials will be kept at this location.
PLEASE SUPPORT MOVIES AT MIDWAY!
Movies at Midway is supportive of the Film Society by donating the use of the screening room for the Around The World series.
Please show your appreciation by purchasing your snacks from the Movies at Midway concessions booth.
Note: The Film Society works hard to make sure this program is accurate. Please understand that we depend on other festivals, distributors,
delivery people, and filmmakers to send films on time. Sometimes problems do occur which are beyond our control. Call the Festival office at
302-645-9095, check our website at www.rehobothfilm.com and read notices in the Big Tent for the most current information.
ENJOY THE FESTIVAL!
E v e ry t h i ng you n e e d t o k now
LOCALS’ NIGHT: Oct 31-Nov 4 [9:30 am - 4:30 pm],
Au di e nc e Awa r ds a n d F i l m Gu i de
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Audience Awards
Each viewer will receive a ballot for each film that you attend. Please complete each and every ballot, selecting the
description that best describes your personal rating of the film. The choices are:
Poor / Fair / Good / Very Good / Outstanding
Ballots are to be placed in the Ballot Box at the Theater’s exit. Every vote is counted and is very important to
the overall process of selecting the best films at this year’s Festival including Best Feature, Best Short, Best
Documentary, and Best Debut Feature.
Audience Awards are announced at the Closing Celebration on Sunday evening in the Big Tent. Although there are
no financial prizes that accompany these awards at this time, the Producer and Director are entitled to bragging
rights when their film wins a film festival award as determined by audience voting. In respect of the hard work
devoted to each and every film, please be sure to complete your ballot and deposit it in the ballot boxes located at
the exit doors. Thank you.
Film Selection
It is the practice of the Rehoboth Beach Film Society, as the producer of the Rehoboth Beach Independent Film
Festival, to program a selection of films that represents a moderate balance of diversity, genre, focal issues, and
demographics.
Film Guidance System
The Rehoboth Beach Independent Film Festival screens films of artistic merit from around the world. Many
of these films have not been rated by the Motion Picture Association of America and may contain material not
suitable for minors. In an effort to provide as much information as possible for viewers, the RBFS has created
a guidance system that can be used as part of the film selection process. Codes were assigned to films, when
applicable, to the best of the Film Society’s ability. Film viewers and parents of minors, are strongly encouraged
to read the movie descriptions and codes, and to use individual discretion when selecting films for viewing. RBFS
employees and Board members are available to answer any questions about the content of any film Employees and
Board members are available to answer any questions about the content of any film.
= may contain some offensive language
= may contain some nudity
= may contain some violence
= may contain some sexual content
= may contain lesbian/gay orientation
F i l m Sc h e du l e
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Film Schedule
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Mixed Bag Shorts
The Future
Women on the Sixth Floor
Carol Channing: Larger Than life
Belevedere
The Salt of Life
The Interrupters
Hermano
The Guard
Bardsongs
Tomorrow Will Be Better
The Roundup
The Night Watch
The White Meadows
Vincent Wants to Sea
Jane’s Journey
Life, Above All
The Hedgehog
King of Devil’s Island
The Piano in a Factory
Restless
The Matchmaker
The Tree
If a Tree Falls
Hello, How Are You?
Oxygen
The Fairy
Tomboy
Higher Ground
The Conquest
Rosa Morena
Jiro, Dreams of Sushi
10% Shorts
Restoration
Happy Happy
Project Nim
Gun Hill Road
My Afternoons With Margueritte
Silent Souls
The Light Thief
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Hermano
Rosa Morena
The Hedgehog
The Night Watch
Bardsongs
The Matchmaker
The Tree
10% Shorts
The Salt of Life
The White Meadows
Force of Nature
Restless
The Light Thief
Life, Above All
An Evolving Legacy
Tomboy
Anything You Want
Take Shelter
The Future
Higher Ground
Buck
Circumstance
Hello, How Are You?
Oxygen
The Conquest
It Came From Cannes
Loose Cannons
Cave of Forgotten Dreams [in 3-D]
So Hard To Forget
Restoration
Salvation Boulevard
The Guard
Happy Happy
The Roundup
Project Nim
Gun Hill Road
Three
The Fairy
Beats, Rhymes & Life
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FILM
Loose Cannons
Take Shelter
Higher Ground
Cave of Forgotten Dreams [in 3-D]
Circumstance
The Guard
The Tree
Salvation Boulevard
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Life, Above All
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Revenge of the Electric Car
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The Hedgehog
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Salvation Boulevard
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Mixed Bag Shorts
66
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Wish Me Away
62
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Three
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In Good Time
76
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Jane’s Journey
60
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The Fairy
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The Matchmaker
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If a Tree Falls
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The Night Watch
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Hello, How Are You?
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Cafeteria Man
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Higher Ground
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Buck
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Gun Hill Road
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Take Shelter
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Oxygen
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The Green
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The Conquest
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Audience Favorite #3
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Carol Channing: Larger Than Life
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Anything You Want
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Vanishing Voices
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Restless
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Hermano
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Wish Me Away
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Howard Pyle
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The Guard
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Life, Above All
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Loose Cannons
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Tomboy
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Force of Nature
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Belevedere
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The Future
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It Came From Cannes
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The Salt of Life
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Silent Souls
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So Hard To Forget
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The Tree
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Start Location
Three
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Restoration
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Thur Seminar: SEX(Y) in the Cinema
10:00 am Big Tent
The Dish and the Spoon
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French Literary Salon
10:00 am Big Tent
Circumstance
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11/11/11 Veterans Salute
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Happy Happy
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Seminar: A Conversation with 9:00 am Jason Butler Harner
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a Doc Makes
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Bardsongs
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The Roundup
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The Future
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Mixed Bag Shorts
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Take Shelter
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Children’s Cinema Corner
1:00 pm Screening Room
The Green
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A Tour of France Wine Tasting
6:00 pm
Big Tent
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Beats, Rhymes & Life
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Dogfish Head Bear Tasting
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Big Tent
Restless
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French Baroque Dance 9:15 pm Big Tent
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The Light Thief
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Sun Seminar: French Cinema
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Closing Night Celebration
5:00 pm Big Tent
Big Tent
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An Evolving Legacy:
The Delaware Coastal Act
Anything You Want
The Astronaut on the Roof
AWOL
Bald Guy
Bardsongs
Beats Rhymes & Life:
Katie Loves the Kitten
Las Palmas
Life, Above All
The Light Thief
Loose Cannons
Lust Life
The Maiden and the Princess
The Matchmaker
Mouths of Sand
My Afternoons
With Margeuritte
The Night Watch
No Direction
Oxygen
Perferably Blue
Project Nim
The Red Curtains
Requited
Restless
Restoration
Robot Zot
Rosa Morena
The Roundup
The Salt of Life
Salvation Boulevard
Scardey Squirrel
Silent Souls
So Hard To Forget
Take Shelter
Three
The Three-Legged Cat
Tomboy
Tomorrow Will Be Good
The Tree Vanishing Voices of
World War II
Vincent Wants To Sea
Water Lilies in Bloom
The Wedding Party
West of the Moon
The White Meadows
The Winter Boy
Wish Me Away
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Cafeteria Man
Careful With That Crossbow Mixed Bag Shorts
Carol Channing:
Larger Than Life
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Cat and Canary
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
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The Changeling
Cannes Shorts
Circumstance
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Cold
Cannes Shorts
The Conquest
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The Day Jimmy’s Boa
Ate the Wash
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Ebony Society
Mixed Bag Shorts
The Fairy
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Force of Nature:
The David Suzuki Movie
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The Future
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The Green
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The Guard
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Gun Hill Road
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Happy Happy
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The Hedgehog
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Hello, How Are You?
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Hermano
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Higher Ground
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If a Tree Falls:
The Story of the ELF
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In Good Time: The Piano
Jazz of Marian McPartland
On Screen In Person
The Interrupters
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Jane’s Journey
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Joey Runs Away
Junior
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A b ou t t h e cov e r
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About the Cover
Once again, the theme for this year’s Festival artwork
emerged from the talents of the local art community.
Nine artists submitted original works illustrating a
creative approach to connecting the theme of film with
the coastal area.
Damon Pla
The theme for this year’s Festival artwork was inspired
by Damon Pla’s acrylic on canvas titled “Harvest Moon”.
Born in South Florida, Damon Pla was drawn to express
himself through art at an early age. Upon completing
various portfolio classes in high school, his advanced
drawing and painting skills led him to pursue commercial
and private commissions soon after graduation. After a
decade of large scale projects throughout Florida and
neighboring regions, the largely self-taught artist moved
to Delaware to absorb a different landscape.
Today, Damon continues to work full time creating
timeless murals, large paintings and limited edition
reproductions for his collectors. He resides in Dagsboro,
Original Cover Art
DE with wife Dana and their daughters Maya and Zoey.
Thank you Damon for so generously sharing your artistry;
Harvest Moon is a fantasy that sparks the imagination!
– Rehoboth Beach Film Society
A special thanks to David Burslem, Geri DiBiase, Jane Knaus,
Hosanna LaFazia, Anita Peghini-Raber, Nina Stamus, Ron Tate,
and Toby Jo Vandiver for submitting wonderfully creative art for
consideration.
If you are interested in submitting artwork for the 2012 Festival,
please email [email protected] for guidelines and due date.
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As producers of the Rehoboth Beach Independent Film Festival, the Rehoboth
Beach Film Society’s Board of Directors, staff, and volunteers are committed
to maintaining an “access for everyone” philosophy, as the community spirit of
the 5-day Festival is what we all enjoy. Launched at the 2010 Festival, the Reel
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the Festival. Each member may purchase tickets for him/herself and one guest (a couple can buy for two
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other RBFS members and the general public. Thank you.
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follow this rule. At some point during the Festival, we all will have the experience of appreciating this
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Please cooperate with volunteers when you are asked to exit out to the parking lot. Thank you.
RESPECT volunteers because a Festival without volunteers
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The Rehoboth Beach Film Society is a volunteer organization. Without volunteers, we have no Festival.
Please be respectful of volunteers by following their requests and directions. Thank you.
Thanks For Your Cooperation!
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F e at u r e F i l m s
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Anything You Want
(Todo lo que tu quieras) Traditional male and female gender roles, still strongly
entrenched in many countries, including Spain, are tossed
out the window in Achero Mañas intelligent and affecting
third feature. Centering on a happy Madrid family of three
- father Leo is an ambitious lawyer while his wife Alicia
is a working mom who nonetheless takes care of the
vast majority of the parenting of four-year-old daughter
Dafne. Mañas’s drama quickly turns things upside-down
with Alicia’s sudden death. Leo is immediately set adrift
by his newfound responsibilities as a single parent, a
feeling that is made doubly distressing when Dafne,
herself understandably confused and heartbroken by her
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mother’s absence, asks for an “artificial” mother to help her fall asleep
at night. It is here that Mañas takes the road less traveled, but to write
any more about the plotline would be unfair to both the viewer and
filmmaker alike. Suffice it to say that Leo’s actions are both surprising
and potentially dangerous, as they require Leo to subsume his own
identity to the point where he nearly loses it.
[Dir. Achero Mañas, 2010, Spain, 35mm, 101 mins.
In Spanish with English subtitles]
Website: www.6sales.es/AnythingYouWant.html
Bardsongs
Signis Award for Best Film, FilmFestDC
A fascinating marriage of story and song, this triptych
of musical morality tales sprang from the mind of
established Dutch documentary filmmaker Sander
Francken. Intertwined with musicians performing songs
written for the film, the stories take place in the city
of Jodhpur in Rajasthan, India; in the city of Djenne in
Mali; and in the Ladakh region of India. In the first story,
a collector of plastic waste is philosophical about the
cards he’s dealt in life. In the second story, a determined
young boy is urged on by his Koran master to spend a
Sponsored by:
thurs
NOV 10
2:00 pm-3:40 pm
FRI
NOV 11
10:20 am-12:00 pm
Beth Hochholzer & Alan Barthelman
SAT
NOV 12
10:00 am-11:40 am
In Celebration of the Life of Bev Denbo
week in the big city searching for the greatest part of all knowledge and
is surprised at the answer. In the last story, a hapless farmer endures
conflicting advice on his way to sell an animal at market. Evocatively
photographed and engagingly acted, Bardsongs is clever, benevolent,
and charming.
[Dir. Sander Francken, 2010, Netherlands, video, 94 mins.
In Hindi, Bambara, and Ladakhi with English subtitles]
Website: www.Bardsongs.com
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Belvedere is a rich drama focusing on the lives of those
who survived the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. War widow
Ruvejda is living at the Belvedere refugee camp on the
edge of town. She patiently waits to find the remains
of her family in the mass graves being unearthed. She
shares her solitude with her invalid brother Alija, who
was left confined to a wheelchair after the horrific event.
Their nephew Ado, one of the few young inhabitants of
the camp, wants out of the place, and he accomplishes
his desire in a rather unconventional way. He leaves
for Belgrade to participate in the “Big Brother” reality
show. While footage for the TV program is shot in color,
the rest of Belvedere is in black-and-white. Reminiscent
of an antique chorus, other women-widows take part
Sponsored by:
thursnov 10
12:15 pm-1:50 pm
Happy Birthday Rita Hanuschock
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The Tides Behavioral Health
NOV 12
in the plot, thereby intensifying the overall gravity of the film testimony.
Director Ahmed Imamovic’s film paints an uncommon image of patience,
faith, love, and above all, forgiveness. With visually arresting skill and
unexpected humor, Belvedere is an emotionally rich portrait of war’s
troubled aftermath.
[Dir. Ahmed Imamovic, 2010, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 35mm, 90
mins. In Bosnian with English subtitles]
Website: www.Belvederemovie.com
This film is part of the sidebar Global Lens and is co-presented by the
Global Film Initiative. For more information go to www.globalfilm.org
Circumstance
In this year’s winner of the Sundance Film Festival
Audience Award, teenagers Atafeh, and her best friend,
Shireen, are experimenting with their burgeoning
sexuality amidst the subculture of Tehran’s underground
art scene when Atafeh’s brother, Mehran, returns
home from drug rehab. Battling his demons, Mehran
vehemently renounces his former life as a classical
musician and joins the morality police. He disapproves
of his sister’s developing intimate relationship with
Shireen and becomes obsessed with saving Shireen
from Atafeh’s influence. Suddenly, the two siblings,
who were close confidants, are entangled in a triangle
Audience Award for Best Film, Sundance Film Festival
Sponsored by:
wed
NOV 9
7:50 pm-9:40 pm
David P. Nelson & William F. McManus
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NOV 11
4:15 pm-6:10 pm
CAMP Rehoboth
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NOV 12
7:05 pm-9:00 pm
Jenn Harpel, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney
of suspense, surveillance, and betrayal as the once-liberal haven of
the family home becomes a place of danger for the beautiful Atafeh.
Splendidly constructed and saturated with a sumptuous sense of style
and sensuality, Circumstance marks the arrival of an exciting, original
talent. First-time feature writer/director Maryam Keshavarz registers
a rare glimpse of forbidden love in today’s Iranian youth culture.
[Dir. Maryam Keshavarz, 2011, Iran/France/USA, 35mm, 107 mins.
In Farsi and English with English subtitles]
Website: www.takepart.com/circumstance
Feature Films
Belvedere
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The Conquest
(La conquête)
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2011
May 6, 2007. France’s run-up to the presidential
elections. As the French people are getting ready to go
to the polls to elect their new president, Nicolas Sarkozy
has shut himself away in his home. Even though he knows
he has won the battle, he is gloomy and despondent in
his dressing gown. All day long, he has been trying to
get in touch with his wife Cécilia – to no avail. The last
five years unfurl before our eyes, recounting Sarkozy’s
unstoppable ascent, riddled with backstage underhand
trickery, fits of anger and confrontations. Crucial to
the story is the fact that it is about a fight inside the
same camp - Chirac, Villepin and Sarkozy all fighting for
power. Although a film, it shows like a Shakespearean
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script with the extraordinary metaphor of love embodied by Cécilia
Sarkozy, who for twenty years struggled to pull the man she loved from
the shadow into the light and who walked out on him for another man on
the day he conquered power. Pure fiction and the essence of drama, The
Conquest sounds like a simple story of a man gaining power and losing his
wife, but if you know French politics, you know that will not be the case.
[Dir. Xavier Durringer, 2011, France, 35mm, 105 mins. In French with
English subtitles]
Website: www.musicboxfilms.com/the-conquest.com
This film is part of the Country Spotlight: France
The Fairy
(Le Fee)
Dom works the night shift in a small hotel near the
industrial French sea port of Le Havre. One night, a
woman arrives with no luggage and no shoes. Her name
is Fiona. She tells Dom she is a fairy and grants him
three wishes. Fiona makes two wishes come true, then,
mysteriously disappears. Dom, who by then has fallen
in love with Fiona, searches for her everywhere and
eventually finds her in the psychiatric hospital where
she has been committed. The filmmakers behind the
critically acclaimed Iceberg (RBIFF) and Rumba are back
to enchant the world. The Fairy is a cinematic curiosity in
all regards, the least of which is its triplicate directorial
signature. With a long collaboration in theatrical comedy
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2011
Sponsored by:
thursnov 10
6:30 pm-8:10 pm
Nancy Leggoe
FRI
NOV 11
9:05 pm-10:45 pm
Cliff Diver & Kathryn Byrne
SAT
NOV 12
10:30 am-12:10 pm
stretching back to their studies in Paris in the early 1980s, Dominique
Abel, Fiona Gordon and Bruno Romy team up for their third feature
which continues their rejuvenation of the slapstick film. Their films
are also a nod to the pioneers of the genre such as Buster Keaton and
Jacques Tati. What would a French sidebar be without a crazy, funny,
yet touching farce…and nobody does it better.
[Dirs. Fiona Gordon, Bruno Romy, and Dominique Abel, 2011, France/
Belgium, 35mm, 93 mins. In French with English subtitles
Website: www.kinolorber.com
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MPAA Rating: R
The Future begins one afternoon on a sofa. Sophie and
Jason, a 30-something couple in Los Angeles, realize
that in one month their lives will change radically when
they adopt a stray cat. Wanting to take advantage of their
fleeting freedom, they quit their jobs, disconnect their
Internet, and pursue new interests, all of which literally
alter the course of time and space and test their faith
in each other and themselves. Director Miranda July’s
work represents a truly original voice exemplified by this
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Sponsored by:
Super Snooper Home Inspections LLC
film being narrated by a cat. She has an uncanny intuition for playful,
figurative storytelling. The Future is an exhilarating, funny, and wildly
inventive feature that reflects a profound understanding of the existential
fears that accompany relationships.
[Dir. Miranda July, 2011, US, 35mm, 91 mins]
Website: www.thefuturethefuture.com
The Green
Best Feature, Connecticut GLBT Film Festival
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8:55 pm-10:40 pm
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[Both screenings include a Q&A with actor Jason Butler Harner]
Michael and Daniel have moved from New York City to a
bucolic Connecticut town in hopes of living a simpler life.
But the muggy spring weather isn’t the only oppressive
thing about their new community. Michael is finding his
balance as an out teacher at a private high school when
his interactions with a student come into question. As
he’s told, “There’s been an accusation. And that’s all that
matters.” A misunderstood encounter sets the events in
motion, driven by the student’s mother and her sinister
boyfriend. Are they after the truth, revenge or money? As
Michael’s life unravels, he and Daniel are forced to face
the suspicions of coworkers and the latent homophobia
in their friends and neighbors (including indie favorite
Illeana Douglas). Their lesbian civil rights lawyer, Karen
(the striking Julia Ormond), is itching for a fight, and her
“all in” attitude might be more than Michael is looking for. The story
spins completely out of Michael’s control when his accuser disappears,
making it even harder to prove the truth—whatever the truth actually
is. When Karen unearths a damaging secret about Michael that even
Daniel doesn’t know, a storm of violent confrontations threatens to
bring down Michael, his relationship, and the entire community. As
Michael, Jason Butler Harner walks the thin line between honesty and
cagey secrecy. Cheyenne Jackson brings sweetness and authenticity to
the role of Daniel. The audience must draw their own conclusions as
the green of summer fades to fall.
[Dir. Steven Williford, 2011, US, video, 90 mins.]
Website: www.thegreenthemovie.com
Feature Films
The Future
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The Guard
Sergeant Gerry Boyle, a salty village cop in Ireland, has a
subversive sense of humor, a caustic wit, and an uncanny
knack for keeping people at arm’s length. When a straitlaced FBI agent chasing an international drug-smuggling
ring hits town, Boyle has no intention of letting the arrival
disrupt his routine of hookers and wisecracks. Initially,
he relishes offending and ridiculing the agent, but a
murder and a series of peculiar events draw the reluctant
sergeant into the investigation. John Michael McDonagh’s
crisply written debut feature transcends the rules of
the buddy cop comedy, wryly offering genuine humor
MPAA Rating: R
Best Debut Film, Berlin International Film Festival
Sponsored by:
wed
7:55 pm-9:35 pm
The Lee Ann Wilkinson Group
thursnov 10
1:55 pm-3:35 pm
AmericInns of Delaware
FRI
NOV 11
7:30 pm-9:10 pm
Paul and Anne Michele Kuhns
SAT
NOV 12
2:45 pm-4:25 pm
NOV 9
and thrills against an unexpectedly moving portrait of its protagonist.
Brendan Gleeson’s beguiling portrayal of Boyle defies easy definition
as hero or buffoon, hinting instead at the lonely, intelligent man behind
the sharp retorts. Don Cheadle plays FBI agent Wendell Everett as the
counter balance to Boyle and the only person Boyle can trust, making this
a buddy movie of a different sort. The Guard is a clever, fresh character
study, as well as a snappy joyride of an action comedy.
[Dir. John Michael McDonagh, 2011, Ireland, 35mm, 96 mins.]
Website: www.sonyclassics.com/theguard/
Gun Hill Road
An official selection of this year’s Sundance Film Festival,
Gun Hill Road is a tense and complex family drama about
a teen embracing her gender identity and a father who
must put aside his notions of manhood and reinvestigate
his own ideas of what having a “normal” child means.
There is no doubt that Enrique Michael Rodriguez has
many ideas of what his young son—and namesake—
will become: strong, proud of his Nuyorican heritage,
macho…just like Enrique himself. But when Enrique
returns home to the Bronx after three years in prison,
he finds that he doesn’t know his son Michael at all.
Enrique tries to make up for lost time by focusing even
more attention on his son, only to realize that Michael
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is transitioning to a woman named Venessa. And Vanessa is struggling
to balance school, her poetry, her family, and a boyfriend who prefers
private time to public dates. Meanwhile, Vanessa’s supportive mother,
Angela, tries to keep her family together in spite of her own volatile
personal life. Three pitch-perfect leads anchor an incredible cast.
The always sexy Esai Morales simmers as Enrique, Judy Reyes plays
Angela with grounded vulnerability, and newcomer Harmony Santana
is a true breakout star, shining as Vanessa.
[Dir. Rashaad Ernesto Green, 2011, US, video, 88 mins]
Website: www.Gunhillroad.com
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Happy, Happy
(Sykt Lykkelig)
Sundance Film Festival Narrative World
Feature Jury Prize, Norway’s Submission as
Best Foreign Film, 2012 Academy Awards
thurs
Kaja is an optimistic and easygoing housewife—despite
her loneliness and the fact that her husband won’t have
sex with her. When Elisabeth and Sigve, who seem like
the perfect husband and wife, move in next door, Kaja is
thrilled by their sophistication. They’re beautiful, they
have an adopted black son, and in their spare time, they
sing in a choir. An indiscreet moment between Kaja
and Sigve ignites a full-on affair, but just as her sexual
liberation comes within reach, the inevitable truths and
nov 10
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7:45 pm-9:15 pm
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7:10 pm-8:40 pm
secrets tumble out—perhaps for the best. Set in the dead of winter in
the middle of nowhere, the locale of Happy, Happy is crucial to balancing
the film as both sex comedy and drama. Director Anne Sewitsky allows
her skilled actors to shine, while dark humor, some flat-out hilarity,
and tight storytelling drive this delightful look at the malleability and
resilience of adult relationships.
[Dir. Anne Sewitsky, 2010, Norway, 35mm, 85 mins. In Norwegian
with English subtitles]
The Hedgehog
(Le Herisson)
With a magical blend of gravity and levity, director
Mona Achache deftly brings Muriel Barbery’s widelyloved novel, [The Elegance of the Hedgehog ] and its two
intriguing and delightfully complicated characters to
life. Lover of art and philosophy, 11-year-old Paloma (a
precocious Garance Le Guillemic) is disenchanted with
the hypocrisy she perceives in her immediate world and
pledges to end her life before she herself falls victim to
it, and by the date of her next birthday. With 165 days
to go she commits to documenting her environment
with her father’s High-8 camera. Through this unique
lens, and with Paloma’s caustic and often hilarious
commentary as the soundtrack, we enter the cosmos
of her upper-crust Parisian apartment building and,
as third-party sleuths, glimpse the interior lives of the
characters who inhabit it, in particular, grumpy, frumpy
Best Film, Seattle International Film Festival, Best Music, Valladolid Film Festival, Audience Award,
Best Film FilmFestDC, Best Film COLCOA,
Best of Fest Palm Springs International Film Festival
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concierge, Renée Michel (the marvelous comedienne, Josiane Balasko).
When Paloma’s camera reveals an extensive secret library in Renée’s
back room and that the usually gruff matron reads Tolstoy to her cat,
Paloma begins to understand that there are allies to be found beneath
the prickliest of exteriors. And, when she notices that the new tenant,
elegant widower Kakuro (Togo Igawa, Memoirs of a Geisha), is paying
courtly attention to Reneé, Paloma sees a new mission ahead of her. As
the unlikely friendship between this disparate trio deepens, Paloma’s
own coming of age becomes a much less pessimistic prospect.
[Dir. Mona Achache, 2010, France, 35mm, 102 mins.
In French with English subtitles]
Website: www.thehedgehogmovie.com
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(Buna! Ce Faci?)
Special Jury Prize, Most Promising Director, Monaco Film Festivaltival
Hello! How Are You? is a witty, stylishly crafted tale of
a husband and wife whose 20-year marriage has long
since lost its zing, making them vulnerable to the joys
of intimate but anonymous on-line chat with strangers.
Musician Gabriel and dimpled dry-cleaning proprietress
Gabriela (Dana Voicu, the director’s wife) live like two
strangers who no longer see each other. But in humorous
contrast to their staid, passionless lives, characters
in a constant state of sexual arousal surround them.
Their libidinous teen son, whose hilarious voiceover
commentary intermittently provides important narrative
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information, prides himself on being the high school stud and aspires
to a career in porn. Gabriela’s sexy employee switches boyfriends
the way she changes clothes. And despite being married, Gabriel’s
colleague is working his way through the female members of their
orchestra. Ultimately, the two Gabys find their virtual affairs affect
their relationship in an unanticipated way.
[Dir. Alexandru Maftei , Romania, 2010, 35mm, 105 Mins. In Romanian
Website: www.hellohowareyoumovie.com
Hermano
Venezuela Submission as Best Foreign Film for the
Academy Award, Best First Film, Havana Film Festival,
Best Film, Huelva Latin Film Festival, Best Film
Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival,
Best Director, Moscow International Film Festival,
Best Film, Palm Springs International Film Festival
Two brothers who grew up playing soccer in the dirt fields
of their barrio have their prayers answered when a scout
gives them the opportunity to try out with the Caracas
Football Club. Daniel dreams of being a professional
player, but Julio’s more pragmatic goals of providing for
the family lead him down a darker path. As the details
of their lives unfold through the simple acts of baking
a cake, a raucous party or rooftop romance, we see the
sinister undercurrents that threaten to derail everything
and the bonds of family pushed to the limit. Venezuela’s
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entry for Best Foreign Film tells a bittersweet tale of a brother’s love
and loyalty being put to the test. With fast-paced, exhilarating action,
director Marcel Rasquin captures the raw talent of the young hopeful
players, and demonstrates the unifying power of team sports played in
a vacant lot.
[Dir. Marcel Rasquin, 2010, Venezuela, 35mm, 96 mins. In Spanish
Website: www.hermanomovie.com
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Hello, How Are You?
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wed
Charting one woman’s spiritual journey through life
while exploring and embracing her own humanity, Higher
Ground is that rare film rich in ideas but also charged with
emotion. As a child growing up in the 1960s, Corinne’s
defining feature is her sense of inadequacy. When she
reaches high school, her home life begins to unravel,
driving her into the arms of Ethan, a guitarist in a local
band. A life-changing event propels them to join a small
fundamentalist community where they find meaning and
stability. But some of its more conservative tenets leave
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Corinne unsettled, driving her into a profound crisis of faith that turns
her world upside down. Vera Farmiga gives yet another richly nuanced
performance, but this time she unleashes her equally formidable talent
behind the camera as well. She tackles complex issues with sophistication
and graceful insight, crafting a moving story about the transformative
powers of faith and doubt.
[Dir. Vera Farmiga, 2011, US, 35mm, 109 mins]
Website: www.sonyclassics.com/higherground
(Kongen av Bastøy)
Through hard work, discipline, and brutal punishment,
the guards of Bastøy Boys Home believe they will turn
troublesome juvenile delinquents into well-adjusted
citizens. The warden (Swedish favorite Stellan Skarsgård)
presides over this island prison with a combination of
uneasy compassion and an iron fist, especially when a
headstrong new inmate arrives. Erling (Benjamin Helstad
in a commanding debut performance) demonstrates an
unbreakable indomitability that quickly clashes with the
guards and earns the respect of his fellow inmates. A
tragic series of events initiated by a sadistic dorm master
[Kristoffer Joner) finds these young men overpowering
their captors and demanding to be treated fairly. The
ensemble cast expertly defines their roles, from the new
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young actors portraying the passionate prisoners to the cool precision
conveyed by film veterans Skarsgard and Joner. Their performances
are equaled by John Andreas Anderson’s exemplary cinematography,
which uses a subdued blue and gray color palette that’s heightened by
the fiery behavior of the third act. Based on the true events of 1915,
King of Devil’s Island stands as an epic testament that the struggles of
yesterday are, at their heart, the same struggles of today.
[Dir, Marius Holst, 2010, Norway, 35mm, 118 mins. In Norwegian with
English subtitles]
Website: www.filmmovement.com
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Higher Ground
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South African Submission, Best Foreign Film at the Academy Awards, Best Film, Dubai
International Film Festival, Best Screenwriting,
Leo Awards
Chanda, [Khomotso Manyaka] is a South African preteen
dealing with a number of difficult situations. Her
mother, Lillian, is very ill, her stepfather is a drunk,
her newborn sister has just died, and her two living
siblings need to be fed, clothed and taken to school.
The grace and intelligence this youngster brings to bear
on all these crises transforms the hard reality in Oliver
Schmitz’s Life, Above All into an inspiring comingof-age story. At the same time, the film examines the
prejudice and problems accompanying poverty and
widespread HIV infection in the small township where
Chanda lives. When locals start whispering that Lillian
has the dreaded “bug,” a nosy neighbor (memorably
played by Harriet Manamela) intervenes in a misguided
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attempt to shield Chanda and her family. As the problems mount, so
does the girl’s resolve, as she stands up to other residents and causes
them to reevaluate their preconceptions. Manyaka brings maturity and
intention to her portrayal of Chanda, while screenwriter Dennis Foon’s
intimate narrative depicts a country’s wider devastation caused by
poverty, fear, and disease. Against a tragically preventable backdrop
of teenage prostitution, alcoholism, infant mortality, and the AIDS
epidemic, the film seeks a hopeful future for a damaged community in
one heartbreakingly resilient child.
[Dir. Oliver Schmitz, 2010, South Africa, 35mm, 106 mins. In Sepedi
Website: www.sonyclassics.com/lifeaboveall
The Light Thief
(Svet-Ake)
Kyrgyzstan’s Office Submission to the
Best Foreign Film at the Academy Awards
A pastoral tale of technological advancement, The Light
Thief blends a simple man’s inner vibrancy with his
burning passion for wind-generated electricity. Glowing
from within, Svet-Ake – which literally translates to “Mr.
Light” – is the local electrician in an isolated village
perched high on the Kyrgyz Mountains. It’s not the
most profitable profession; electricity only reaches this
remote corner of the earth sporadically and never sticks
around for long. Constantly plagued by short circuits,
the locals exist in a dream-like state of intermittent
darkness, infusing their daily lives with a strange,
somber poetry. His greatest aspiration is to harness the
wind, offering locals a fair chance at cheap electricity.
Hope arrives in the form of local magnate Bezkat, who
promises to make Svet-Ake’s dreams come true in return
for his professional services. Little does the electrician
know, Bezkat’s goodwill disguises his own scheming
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agenda. Stranded in the middle of Kyrgyzstan’s Tulip Revolution, the
unassuming denizens of this hill-perched village have no idea how
to defend their land. Director Aktan Arym Kubat casts himself in the
lead, yet skillfully maintains a rich directorial focus. Finding a powerful
motif in electricity, he has made a profoundly human film that goes
beyond political allegory to explore man’s belief in what he cannot see,
be it God or electrical currents.
[Dir. Aktan Arym Kubat, 2010, Kyrgyzstan, 35mm, 80 mins.
In Kyrgyz with English subtitles]
Website: catalogue.globalfilm.org/the-light-thief-svet-ake.html
This film is part of both sidebars Global Lens and Seeing Green and is
co-presented by the Global Film Initiative. For more information go to
www.globalfilm.org
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Life, Above All
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Loose Cannons
(Mine vaganti)
Tommaso (Riccardo Scamarcio, Eden Is West) has a
comfortable life in Rome as an aspiring writer and a
steady relationship with his boyfriend Marco - a life he
has kept secret from his family. So when he’s called back
to his hometown of Lecce in Italy’s deep-south to help run
the family pasta business, he decides to finally reveal his
homosexuality to his conservative family and hopefully get
out of his business obligations in the process. But when his
plans are thwarted by his brother, Tommaso gets stuck on
the path that he was desperately trying to avoid. Director
Ferzan Ozpetek (Facing Windows, A Perfect Day) takes a
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playful approach to this family dramedy, matching a critique of provincial
Southern values with an eccentric cast of characters that includes a
philandering conservative father, a boozing aunt, a pair of disgruntled
maids, and Tommaso’s bubbly friends. As each family member’s quirks
slowly come to the surface, Ozpetek’s heartfelt film reveals that Tommaso
isn’t the only one struggling to navigate between la bella figura (a good
public image) and his true desires.
[Dir. Ferzan Ozpetek, 2010, Italy, 35mm, 110 mins. In Italian with
English subtitles]
The Matchmaker
Best Israeli Film , Israeli Film Festival of New York, Best Actor and Best Actress Israeli Film Awards
Arik, a teenage boy growing up in Haifa in 1968, gets a
job working for Yankele Bride, a matchmaker. Yankele, a
mysterious Holocaust survivor, has an office in back of a
movie theater that shows only love stories, run by a family
of seven Romanian dwarves in the seedy area by the port.
Yankele introduces Arik to a new world, built on the ruins
of an old one. As Arik begins to learn the mysteries of the
human heart through his work with Yankele, he falls in
love with Tamara, his friend Beni’s cousin. Tamara has
just returned from America and is full of talk of women’s
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rights, free love and rock and roll. The disparate parts of Arik’s life collide
in unexpected, often funny and very moving ways as he lives through a
summer that changes him forever. Avi Nesher’s (The Secrets) latest film
mixes comedy with drama as it tells a coming-of-age story unlike any
you’ve ever seen before.
[Dir. Avi Nesher, 2010, Israel, 35mm, 112 mins. In Hebrew with
English subtitles]
Website: www.menemshafilms.com/the-matchmaker-once-i-was.html
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(La tête en friche)
Germain (Gérard Depardieu) lives in the charming
traditional French village where he was born. A
semiliterate fifty-something whose home is a trailer
on his mother’s front lawn, he is the epitome of unfulfillment. Yet despite jibes from his friends and a
poisonous relationship with his mother which stunts
his self-confidence, he’s never been one to make a
fuss about life’s injustices. Indeed, he finds comfort in
the little things, be it tending to his vegetable patch,
carving wood figurines, or feeding the pigeons in the
local park. It is in this latter routine that Germain meets
Margueritte, a sweet elderly lady with a kind heart and
a passion for words. What begins as a chance encounter
soon turns into a regular engagement, as Germain finds
himself drawn to Margueritte’s candid wit and zest for
life and literature. Thriving on the wisdom and charity
Audience Award Best Film, Newport Beach Film Festival
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of his newfound friend and on the great French novels that she reads
to him, Germain gains a fresh perspective and the strength to alter the
course of his life. Adapted from Marie-Sabine Roger’s novel La tête
en friche and serving up an authentic slice of provincial French life,
My Afternoons With Margueritte is a funny, touching and enriching
film that is refreshing in its focus on protagonists older than we have
become accustomed to seeing on the big screen. In this universal and
unaffected tale, this couple will capture audiences’ hearts.
[Dir. Jean Becker, 2010, France, 35mm, 82 mins. In French with
English subtitles]
Website: www.cohenmedia.net
The Night Watch
“War changes people. Not always for the better.” That’s
the common sentiment for a group of lesbians and
gay men in WWII London. Adapted from Sarah Waters’
Man Booker Prize-winning novel, The Night Watch is
an achingly beautiful cyclone of missed connections
and fragmented pasts. Directed by openly gay Richard
Laxton, this film gorgeously moves back in time, from
post-war 1947 to 1944 to 1941, revealing a web of
connections among a group on society’s fringe. Duncan
spent his wartime in jail, lusting after his rakish
cellmate, but he can’t seem to free himself from his
time behind bars. His sister, Viv, is looking for love with
a married man, while trying to forget the ways he has
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betrayed her. Viv’s coworker, Helen, works as a matchmaker, but a past
love triangle with two women threatens her happiness. And when we
meet Kay, she spends her time wandering London’s war-torn streets,
pulled back to her time as an heroic ambulance driver during the Blitz.
Kay’s ex, Julia, is ever more present in her life, especially when Kay
runs into a stranger she aided during the war. While so many around
them find relief in peace, these outsiders are stranded without purpose,
at loose ends, without their pre-war innocence and without the power
they enjoyed during the fighting. Desperate characters burst with quiet
grace as the layers of their lives peel back to reveal the way forward.
[Dir. Richard Laxton, 2011, UK, video, 90 mins]
Feature Films
My Afternoons
With Margueritte
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Oxygen (Adem)
Grand Prize Best Film Montreal World Film Festival, Variety New Talent Award, Zurich Film Festival
Tom and his brother Lucas are young men who suffer
from cystic fybrosis, a genetic disease that slowly
destroys their lungs. Tom is struggling to cope with his
short life expectancy and hangs around with a gang of
hoodlums. In the hospital, he meets Xavier, a young man
suffering from the same illness but behaving like a top
athlete. Xavier is a confirmed optimist, even when he is
dumped by his girlfriend Anneleen. Tom takes in Xavier’s
energy and joy of life. He roams the hospital grounds
and falls for the charms of quirky Eline, who has been
quarantined for months due to an infection. They are not
allowed to touch and can only talk to each other over the
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phone, yet they start a romance. When Tom’s brother Lucas dies during
lung transplant surgery, Tom is inconsolable. He seeks refuge among
his rough friends, avoids Xavier and breaks up with Eline. But one day,
he again crosses Xavier’s path and regains his taste for life. Oxygen
is compelling, romantic, funny and heartbreaking. It’s a drama about
having little time and not wanting to miss out on anything.
[Dir. Hans van Nuffel, 2010, Belgium, 35mm, 98 mins. In Flemish with
English subtitles]
Website: www.oxygenthemovie.com
(Gang de qin)
Miami Film Festival, Best Feature Film
An offbeat ballad of friendship and devotion, The Piano
in a Factory captures the tempo of changing times with
quiet wisdom and a tinge of nostalgia. Steelworker Chen
has a passion for music and plays in a local band with a
close group of friends. When his estranged wife returns
one day after years of absence, she demands a divorce
and sole custody of their daughter. Chen doesn’t mind
divorcing a woman who has become a stranger, but he
can’t bear to part with his daughter. Chen worked hard
to give her a respectable life and taught her his love
of music. When asked who she wanted to live with, the
girl gives a practical, devastating answer: whoever can
provide her with a piano. Chen cannot afford such a
luxury item, but the piano becomes his last hope to save
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what little is left of his family. With the help of his loyal friends and
the support of his new lover, Chen concocts several hysterical plans
to fulfill his daughter’s wish. Nothing works for long, until Chen looks
around his fading steel factory town and hits on the perfect solution.
The film is an endearing portrait of a moment when the certainty of
state-run industry begins to falter. Simple in its measured and assured
direction signals Zhang Meng as one of the most vibrant voices in
Chinese cinema today.
[Dir. Zhang Meng, China, 2011, Blu Ray, 105 Mins. In Mandarin with
English subtitles]
Website: www.filmmovement.com
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MPAA Rating: PG-13
Annabel is a beautiful and charming terminal cancer
patient with a deep-felt love of life and the natural world.
Enoch is a young man who has stopped living, after an
accident claimed the life of his parents. When these two
outsiders meet at a funeral, they find an unexpected
common ground in their unique experiences. For Enoch,
it includes his best friend Hiroshi who happens to be
the ghost of a Kamikaze fighter pilot. For Annabel, it
involves an admiration of Charles Darwin and an interest
in how other creatures live. Upon learning of Annabel’s
imminent early passing, Enoch offers to help her face
her last days with an irreverent abandon, tempting fate,
tradition and even death itself. As their unique love for
each other grows, so do the realities of the world that
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they have felt closing in on them. Daring, childlike, and distinctly rare
- these two bravely face what life has in store for them. Fighting pain,
anger and loss with youth, playfulness and originality, these two misfits
turn the tables on life and play by their own rules. Their journey begins
to collide with the unstoppable march of time, as the natural cycle of
life continues. Directed by Gus Van Sant, Restless follows Annabel
and Enoch’s complex and moving journey together as it culminates in
their acceptance of themselves. The relationships they share with their
friends, families and each other teach them the greatest lesson of all which is every end begets its own kind of rebirth, and love is deathless.
[Dir. Gus Van Sant, 2011, US, 35mm, 95 mins.]
Website: www.sonyclassics.com/restless
Restoration
(Boker tov adon fidelman)
Best Feature Film Karlovy Vary International Film
Festival, Best Film, Best Music, Best Editing and
Best Cinematography Jerusalem Film Festival.
After his longtime business partner dies, Yakov Fidelman
discovers that his antique furniture-restoration shop is
in grave financial difficulty. He’s forced to deal with his
estranged son, Noah, a lawyer, who, seeing no hope for the
failing store, proposes building apartments above it. One
day Fidelman’s new apprentice, Anton, finds a neglected
piano in the workshop, an 1882 Steinway that, given a new
baseboard, would be worth enough to save the store. The
elegant story lines of Yossi Madmony’s first feature yield
a complex set of frayed character relations for which
restoration proves an apt metaphor. Marked by restrained
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writing, which leaves significant details open to interpretation, Restoration
depicts the rich texture of modern Israeli society. Anchored by Sasson
Gabay’s mesmerizing performance, Fidelman is a stoic man who uses his
shop to shut out the world, clinging to the illusion that he can maintain a
vanishing way of life.
[Dir. Joseph Madmony, Israel, 2011, 35mm, 105 Mins. In Hebrew with
English subtitles]
Website: www.menemshafilms.com/restoration
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Rosa Morena
Best First Feature Cinequest Film Festival,
Sao Paulo International Film Festival,
Jury Award Best Film
What do you do when the law says you cannot adopt a
child? The answer is found in the first Danish-Brazilian
co-production ever. We meet Anders W. Berthelsen in
the role of the broody homosexual, Thomas. As a single
gay man in Denmark, he has been refused the right
to adopt, based on his sexual orientation. After this
disappointment, he goes on holiday in Sao Paulo, not
only to visit his friend Jakob, but also to examine the
shadier possibilities for fulfilling his dreams of having
a child. He is soon caught up in a series of delicate
situations, not in the least moral, where $100,000 is
easily transacted for a stolen child. In Brazil Thomas
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meets the beautiful, charming, and pregnant Maria, who is willing to
give up her unborn child in lieu of payment. Soon Thomas finds himself
drawn into a muddy cocktail of confidence, distrust, pure business
and true feelings. Touching on a myriad of social issues, director
Carlos Augusto de Oliveira’s Rosa Morena is also a story of affection.
Provocative, entertaining, and poignant, it resonates through the
alternately heartbreaking and heartwarming tale of two people trying
to do the right thing for the child they both love.
[Dir. Carlos Augusto de Oliveira, Denmark/Brazil, 2011, 35mm,
90 Mins. In Danish, Portuguese and English with English subtitles]
The RoundUp
(La Rafle)
Audience Award, Best Film, Michiana Jewish Film
Festival, Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival, Pittsburgh
Jewish Film Festival, Seattle Jewish Film Festival,
Miami Jewish Film Festival, Denver Jewish,
Washington, DC Jewish Film Festival,
Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival
In picturesque Montmarte, three children wearing a
yellow star play in the streets, oblivious to the darkness
spreading over Nazi-occupied France. Their parents
do not seem too concerned either, somehow putting
their trust in the Vichy Government. But beyond this
view, much is going on. Hitler demands that the
French government round up its Jews and put them
on trains for the extermination camps in the East.
The collaborators start to put the plan into effect and
within a short time, 13,000 of Paris’s Jews, among them
4,000 children, will be rounded up and sent on a road
with no return. The fateful date: July 16, 1942, 69 years
ago. With a meticulously constructed script based on
extensive research and first-hand accounts, writer/
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director Roselyne Bosch brings to the screen one of the most moving
dramas of the year. Powered by fluid direction and a string of starsfrom Jean Reno (The Da Vinci Code, Leon: The Professional) to Mélanie
Laurent (Inglourious Basterds, The Concert), The Roundup became a
big box-office hit in France, and its audiences included thousands of
young people who came to learn about a dark chapter in their country’s
history.
[Dir. Roselyne Bosch, 2010, France, 35mm, 124 mins. In French with
English subtitles]
Website: www.menemshafilms.com/la-rafle.html
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(Gianni e le donne)
In his warm and witty follow-up to the 2010 sleeper hit
Mid-August Lunch, [RBIFF] writer/director/actor Gianni
Di Gregorio has created another sparkling comic ode to
the ladies in his life - but this time he plays a middleaged retiree who has become invisible to all distaff
Romans, regardless of age or relation. In The Salt of Life,
he contends with an aristocratic, spendthrift mother
(again played by Lunch’s great nonagenarian Valeria de
Franciscis); a wife who is more a patronizing friend than
romantic partner; a daughter (played by Di Gregorio’s
daughter Teresa) with a slacker boyfriend whom Gianni
unwillingly befriends; and a wild young neighbor who
sees him merely as a dog walker. Watching his “codger”
Silver Ribbon, Best Comedy Italian National Syndicate
of Film Journalists
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friends snare beautiful younger women on the sun-kissed cobblestones
of Trastevere, Gianni tries his polite, utterly gracious best to generate
some kind of extracurricular love life. But, despite his best efforts with
some old female acquaintances, interrupted by an endless stream of
calls from his demanding mother and a dose of Viagra, poor old Gianni
is like a rusty old motor. The spark is ignited but it is going to take
a long time to get him back on the road to romance! In the end the
results are both hilarious and poignant.
[Dir. Gianni Di Gregorio, 2011, Italy, 35mm, 90 mins. In Italian with
English subtitles]
Website: www.Zeitgeistfilms.com
Salvation Boulevard
Best Feature Charleston International Film Festival
Best Picture Breckinridge Festival of Film
Best Picture Hoboken Film Festival
Best Picture Big Island Film Festival
Ten years after his 2001 documentary Hell House, director
George Ratliff returns to the fertile topic of religion in
America with this righteous satire about hypocrisy behind
the scenes of a “mega-church” in the heartland. Pastor
Dan (Pierce Brosnan) is the evangelical leader of the
Church of the Third Millennium, which boasts thousands
of loyal followers. Dan’s grand vision for building a new
“planned Christian community” hits a snag, however,
when he is involved in the accidental death of one of his
chief critics. In a panic, Dan pins the death on Carl (Greg
Kinnear), an amiable ex-Deadhead church member. With
the police and Pastor Dan’s fundamentalist followers now
on his heels, Carl is forced to take it on the lam and prove
his innocence. The star-studded supporting cast includes
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Jennifer Connelly as Carl’s devout wife, Ciaran Hinds as her tough-as-nails
father, Ed Harris as an atheist professor, and Marisa Tomei as a hippy-ish
security guard sympathetic to Carl’s plight. As the chase builds to a farcical
climax, Carl learns a tough lesson about what it means to be a good
Christian among a flock of charlatans. In a situation ripe with possibilities,
the gloriously talented cast push their performances to the limit, spiraling
this film toward instant cult-comedy status. In Salvation Boulevard, Ratliff
peels back the onion to take a satirical look at Christian fanaticism - one
guilty pleasure at a time.
[Dir. George Ratliff, 2011, US, 35mm, 95 mins]
Website: www.ifcfilms.com/films/salvation-boulevard
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The Salt of Life
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Silent Souls
(Ovsyanki)
Best Actress, Sao Paulo Arts Association
The rites and rituals of the Merja people, an ethnic
minority of Finno-Urgric extraction originally from the
Volga region of Russia, form the backbone of this lyrical,
sensual and dreamlike film about love and loss. After
beloved wife Tanja dies, pulp factory CEO Miron calls
on his best friend, the photographer (and the film’s
narrator) Aist, to help him with his final goodbye. As the
ravishingly-lensed story unfolds, it becomes apparent
that Aist and Tanja were once more than friends. The two
men, bound together through friendship and passion
for the same woman, discuss their memories of her in
bawdy reflection as they transport her to a final place
of rest. By a riverbank, they wordlessly and expertly
observe the ancient rituals and lovingly prepare Tanja’s
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body. Water is central to the film and to Merjan life, and its unobtrusive
yet obviously key presence is indicative of the gentle way director
Aleksei Fedorchenko beautifully weaves the myths and traditions
of this vanishing culture into his poetic film. As the director states,
“The slogan of the film was tenderness. We wanted tenderness to be
transformed into nostalgia; tenderness and nostalgia were to become
synonymous with love.” The result is a melancholy and mystical journey
following the complex and twisting currents of the human heart.
[Dir. Aleksei Fedorchenko, 2010, Russia, 35mm, 75 mins. In Russian
Website: www.silentsoulsfilm.com
So Hard To Forget
(Como Esquecer)
Best Actress, Sao Paulo Arts Association
The trauma of recovering from the break-up of an
intense relationship unfolds in this intense, sensitive but
far from maudlin Brazilian drama. Julia is a hauntingly
beautiful 35-year-old literature teacher who is completely
overcome by sadness and saddled with listlessness after
(the unseen) breakup with her longtime lover, Antonia.
She falls into a painful depression, with the slightest
sight or sound triggering painful memories. Unable to
recover on her own, Julia’s friend Hugo, who himself is
getting over grieving for the death of his life-partner, has
determined it’s time for both to move on. He bought a three
bedroom house, close to the sea, and he plans for Júlia
and his friend Lisa - another soul fresh from a break-up
- to move in. As winds of change blow through the house
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and its new inhabitants, the trio creates an emotional support system for
each other. When Lisa’s cousin, Helena, shows up unannounced, Júlia
allows some light to re-enter her soul. The odd and powerful aspect of
this story is that while we witness the unblinking emotional trauma of
a woman, equal attention is paid to her friends and their efforts to save
her from her self-destructive despair. For anybody who has ever loved,
faced heartbreak and learned to be happy again, this drama is an honest
portrayal of a woman, consumed with grief, taking baby steps to regain
her equilibrium.
[Dir. Malu de Martino, 2010, Brazil, 35mm, 100 mins. In Portuguese
Website: www.m-appeal.com
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Take Shelter
Following his acclaimed debut, Shotgun Stories, writer/
director Jeff Nichols reteams with actor Michael
Shannon to create a haunting tale that will creep
under your skin and expose your darkest fears. Curtis
LaForche lives in a small town in Ohio with his wife,
Samantha (Jessica Chastain, Tree of Life, The Help), and
daughter, Hannah, a six-year-old deaf girl. When Curtis
begins to have terrifying dreams, he keeps the visions
to himself, channeling his anxiety into obsessively
building a storm shelter in his backyard. His seemingly
inexplicable behavior concerns and confounds those
MPAA Rating: R
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closest to him, but the resulting strain on his marriage and tension
within his community can’t compare with Curtis’s privately held fear of
what his dreams may truly signify. Take Shelter features fully realized
characters crumbling under the weight of real-life problems. Using
tone and atmosphere to chilling effect, Nichols crafts a powerful
psychological thriller that is a disturbing tale for our times.
[Dir. Jeff Nichols, 2011, US, 35mm, 120 mins.]
Website: www.sonyclassics.com/takeshelter
Three (Drei)
German Film Awards Best Direction, Best Actress
and Best Editing
From the director of iconic indie flick Run, Lola, Run
comes Three, Tom Tykwer’s latest exploration of human
motivation. If you let it, love can be as easy as onetwo-three, as Tykwer proves in this atmospheric piece
about bisexuality, love, and longing in cosmopolitan
Berlin. One: appealingly disheveled Simon, all scruff and
dimples, who’s ready to move on from tragedy. Two: slyly
humorous Hanna, wry and knowing, who wants more
than the comfortable companionship she has with Simon.
Three: magnetic blonde Adam, impish and confident, an
occasional father who looks for connection (which he
finds with Simon and Hanna.) None of the three knows
what the other two are doing. Here infidelity is just
what the love doctor ordered. Hesitant first approaches
turn voracious, and the affairs pulse with sensuality,
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especially when Simon and Adam smolder on-screen. As each coupling’s
relationship grows more satisfying physically and spiritually, the trio’s
palpable chemistry drives the story to a dizzying climax. Sophie Rois,
Devid Streisow, and Tykwer regular Sebastian Schipper give exquisite
performances, lending an air of enigmatic charisma to characters
sorting out what it means to live life with abandon. Tykwer fractures
the first half of the film with haunting poetry and stark fantasies. He
pulls back from these as the characters’ lives slide into focus, which
feels like taking a step back from a chaotic mosaic to see a fresh and
invigorating story come into view.
[Dir. Tom Tykwer, 2010, Germany, 35mm, 119 mins. In German with
English subtitles]
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Audience Award, Best Film, Frameline, The San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Film Festival,
Teddy Jury Award, Best Film Berlin International
Film Festival
Gender identity is explored in Celine Sciamma‘s (Water
Lilies) humorous, heartfelt story of a girl who just wants
to be a boy. Ten-year-old Laure and her family move
into a Parisian suburban apartment during the summer
holiday. Laure, a tomboy who cuts her hair short and
wears boys’ clothing (not of concern to her parents)
explores the neighborhood and quickly meets Lisa but
introduces herself as Michael. Soon Michael meets up
with other kids and becomes part of the circle of friends
– playing soccer shirtless, running though the forest
or swimming in a lake (where a well played piece of
modeling clay help in her ruse.) The innocence of her
being a boy takes a more mature turn when Lisa falls in
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puppy love with her….and Michael responds. A tender, captivating story
made all the more amazing by the naturalistic and totally believable
performance of Zoe Heran as Michael/Laure. And amazing as she is,
Malonn Levana as her six-year-old sister Jeanne nearly steals the
show from her! A film for all audiences, genders, and sexualities.
[Dir. Celine Sciamma, 2010, France, 35mm, 84 mins. In French with
English subtitles]
Website: www.wolfereleasing.com/info/title/tomboy
(Jutro bedzie lepiej)
Berlin International Film Festival, PEACE Award and
Best Feature Film in Kinderfest
Three homeless boys (Ukrainian Huck Finns) are off on
an odyssey to find a better world – across the border,
in a magic place called Poland. The plot is simplicity
itself; the theme, a dark one; but as viewers of Dorota
Kedzierzawska’s A Time to Die (RBIFF) or Nothing, know,
in the hands of this poet of Polish cinema even a potentially
downbeat subject becomes filled with light and beauty. It is
not the depressing circumstances of the boy’s lives, Vasya,
Petya and Liapa, that are portrayed here, but rather their
indomitable spirits, their sense of adventure and having
fun, their propensity for finding joy, and their unquenchable
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hope. Convinced they will someday “return as kings,” nothing – least of
all reality – can get them down. This is a stunningly lovely, poetic film with
a deep empathy for its characters, full of moments that will take your
breath away; even as the little boys, especially the youngest, Petya, steals
your heart.
[Dir. Dorota Kedzierzawska, 2011, Poland, 35mm, 118 mins. In Polish
Website: www.kidfilm.pl
Feature Films
Tomboy
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The Tree
Closing Night Film Cannes Film Festival wed
In the striking landscape of Queensland, Australia, the
world of a loving family falls apart after the sudden
death of the father. Barely coping with the sorrow,
young widow Dawn is left alone with four children. When
eight-year-old Simone shares the secret that her father
speaks to her through the leaves of the family’s great
fig tree, Dawn too finds consolation in her daughter’s
imagination. The tree becomes an important part of
their grieving process. Dawn slowly gets back on her
feet; she finds a job and starts dating plumber George.
Simone, however, disagrees with the new relationship.
She climbs the tree and refuses to come down. When the
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long branches and roots threaten to infiltrate the house, a devastating
decision has to be made. Based on the Australian book Our Father
Who Art in the Tree by Judy Pascoe, director Julie Bertuccelli paints a
beautiful, subtle picture of love and loss, of letting go and moving on.
The Tree combines the sensitive details of family life with life’s great
questions, all set in the enchanting scenery of a wild, powerful yet
comforting nature.
[Dir. Julie Bertuccelli, 2010, France/Australia, 35mm, 100 mins.
In English]
Website: www.Thetreefilm.com
Vincent Wants To Sea
(Vincent Wil Meer)
German Film Awards, Outstanding Feature Film and
Best Actor in a Lead Role
A charming comedy about the search for happiness
and the veritable discovery of one’s self along the
way, Vincent Wants to Sea tells the story of Vincent, a
27-year-old man suffering from Tourette’s Syndrome.
When Vincent experiences the trauma of his mother’s
death, his estranged politician father drops him off at
a rehabilitation clinic. There he meets Alex, his new
obsessive compulsive roommate, and Marie, a frail
yet bold woman suffering from anorexia who instantly
connects with Vincent. After Marie steals the car
keys of the clinic’s leading therapist, Dr. Rose, she
offers Vincent a chance to escape his present life
in which he is viewed as an embarrassment and a
disappointment. When Alex threatens to expose
their plan, they are compelled to take him along on a
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journey to place the ashes of Vincent’s mother in an Italian sea. With
little money, they are forced to steal gas along the way, ultimately
leading Vincent’s father and Dr. Rose on their own voyage to bring
the patients back. As they travel through gorgeous landscapes, the
three come to discover how much they actually need one another.
They also realize that to obtain true happiness, they must learn
to overcome their own self-hatred. A quirky, endearing coming-ofage story, Vincent Wants to See is full of powerful and impressive
characters that are sure to keep you smiling.
[Dir. Ralf Huettner, 2010, Germany, 35mm, 96 mins. In German with
English subtitles]
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Best Film STARZ Denver Film Festival,
Dubai International Film Festival Best Film and
Best Actor Asia. Africa
“I’ve come to listen to people’s heartaches and take
away tears,” says an old boatman as he rows among the
gray waters and white salt islands of Urmia. As people
whisper their sorrows, he collects each person’s tears
in vials, later to pour them into the sea. A contemporary
Odysseus or Gulliver, his travels reveal a world woven
from both dream and nightmare, where the collective
always conquers the individual: an entire village
gathered to celebrate the funeral of a young woman “too
beautiful to live among us,” an outcast lowered into a
well to bury there all the dreams he has been given, or
a painter blinded by a king for not “seeing” the world as
he should. Cinematographer Ebrahim Ghafouri brings
Rasoulof’s fantastic script to astonishing, painterly life,
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creating a world seemingly drained of color. A portrait of a land where
there are enough tears to fill up the seas and where all dreams must
be buried underground, The White Meadows works as both a veiled
political critique of contemporary Iran and a timeless, unforgettable,
and mesmerizing fable in the tradition of Swift or Kafka.
[Dir. Mohammad Rasoulof, 2010, Iran, 35mm, 93 mins. In Farsi with
English subtitles]
Website: catalogue.globalfilm.org/global-lens-collection/global-lens-2011
This film is part of the sidebar Global Lens and is co-presented by the
Global Film Initiative. For more information go to www.globalfilm.org
(Les femmes du 6ème étage)
Audience Award, Best Film, City Of Lights City
of Angels Film Festival
A patrician Parisian banker learns how the other half
lives—and finds that it agrees with him—in this upstairs/
downstairs comedy of manners. Jean-Louis Joubert
is very particular about his soft-boiled eggs so when
he finds a maid, Maria, who makes them just right, he
knows he’s onto a good thing. What he doesn’t know is,
well, anything else about her. It isn’t very long before he’s
being introduced to a whole new world right under his
own roof: namely, that of the immigrant women who’ve
fled Franco’s Spain and now work as housekeepers,
living in cramped quarters on the building’s top floor.
Their warmth, their humor, their easy camaraderie all
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seem to offer an appealing alternative to his accustomed milieu. The
more he gets to know them, the better he likes them, particularly Maria
herself. An all star cast featuring Fabrice Luchini, Sandrine Kiberlain,
Natalia Verbeke, Carmen Maura, and Lola Dueñas bring this delightful
fable to life.
[Dir. Phillipe Le Guay, 2010, France, 35mm, 100 mins. In French with
English subtitles]
Website: www.strandreleasing.com
Feature Films
The White Meadows
(Keshtzar Haye Sepid)
Docu m e n ta r i e s
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Beats, Rhymes & Life:
The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest
One of the most pioneering and beloved groups of alltime, A Tribe Called Quest seminally defined the sound of
an early-’90s New York hip-hop scene that reverberated
across the nation. Formed in 1985 by Q-Tip, Phife Dawg,
Ali Shaheed Muhammad, and Jarobi White, Tribe melded
jazz-infused musicscapes and Afro-centric rhymes
with bass-heavy rhythmic vibes, eclectic sampling, and
intelligent lyrics addressing social and political issues
with infectious energy. Acclaimed actor Michael Rapaport
paints a remarkably personal portrait of the characters
behind the group’s sonic genius through their five albums,
their highly publicized breakup in 1998, and beyond.
Emotionally honest and forthright interviews with group
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members are intercut with electrifying footage of live performances,
music videos from back in the day, and commentary from Mary J. Blige,
Kanye West, Mos Def, Ludacris, and the Beastie Boys. Whether or not A
Tribe Called Quest will create another record remains a question—but
the group’s profound contribution to musical history and unparalleled
artistic success undisputedly blazed a trail for future generations. While
the music plays a vital role in the film, the relationships and back stories
will resonate with anyone who has ever been part of a group struggling
to remain together.
[Dir. Michael Rapaport, 2011, US, 35mm, 95 mins]
Website: www.Sonyclassics.com/beatsrhymesandlife
Buck
A living legend in the horse world, Buck Brannaman
was the inspiration for The Horse Whisperer. For this
true cowboy, horses are a mirror of the human soul.
Reared by an abusive father, Buck eschews violence. By
teaching people to communicate with horses through
instinct, not punishment, he frees the spirit of the
horse and its human comrade. Crisscrossing the world
with Zen-like wisdom, Buck promulgates grace in the
bond between man and horse. The animal-human
relationship becomes a perfect metaphor for meeting
the challenges of daily life, whether they consist of
Audience Award Best Documentary, Sundance
Film Festival, Audience Award, Full Frame
Documentary Film Festival
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raising kids, running a business, or finding your flow with a dance
partner. What is extraordinary about Buck Brannaman, leaps off the
screen in this strikingly cinematic film by first-time director Cindy
Meehl. Part guru, part psychologist, the adult Buck, who was once a
beaten kid has now beaten the odds. Buck Brannaman could transform
your troubled horse. Buck the movie may transform your soul.
[Dir. Cindy Meehl, 2011, US, 35mm, 88 mins]
Website: www.Buckthefilm.com
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If there ever was a secret recipe for crafting entertainment
in its purest and truest form, Dori Berinstein most likely
has it. The Tony-winning producer is back with another
inspiring story—and she couldn’t have chosen a more
appropriate subject or captured one more affectionately.
With every lyrical word, movements akin to the grace
of choreography, and a rich and rarefied storyline that
rivals that of any heroine of the Great White Way, Carol
Channing’s life could itself be a Broadway musical.
Footage from the archives—television appearances, song
and dance numbers, and stage performances—show
Carol at her best (not that there is a “worst”). Debbie
Reynolds, Chita Rivera, Bruce Vilanch and Channing’s
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devoted chorus of “Dolly Boy” dancers pop up to pay tribute to this
amazing performer. Without batting a false eyelash, she effortlessly
charms audiences with her hilarity, relentless energy, and unique
beauty, reminding us that before Barbra or Marilyn, there was Carol.
Channing shows us true love may be the key to youth and vitality. An
advocate for many charities including gay rights and AIDS awareness,
Channing still lights up the stage with song and dance. Perhaps the
most brilliant thing about Berinstein’s bubbly biopic is that you don’t
need to love Broadway or even theater itself to love or to be mesmerized
by Carol. You’re looking swell, Dolly, and it’s so nice to have you back
where you belong!
[Dir. Dori Berinstein, 2011, US, video, 83 mins]
Cave of Forgotten
Dreams (in 3-D)
Werner Herzog is a wizard at conjuring unforgettable
visions, from the ship dragged over the mountain in
Fitzcarraldo to the Antarctic landscape in Encounters
at the End of the World. Now he brings us the earliest
known visions of mankind: the Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc
cave art of southern France created more than thirty
thousand years ago. By comparison, the famous cave
art of Lascaux is roughly half as old. Since Chauvet’s
discovery in 1994, access has been extremely restricted
due to concerns that overexposure, even to human
breath, could damage the priceless drawings. Only a
small number of researchers have ever seen the art in
person. Herzog gained extraordinary permission to film
the caves using lights that emit no heat. But Herzog
being Herzog, this is no simple act of documentation. He
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initially resisted shooting in 3D, then embraced the process, and now
it’s hard to imagine the film any other way. Just as Lascaux left Picasso
in awe, the works at Chauvet are breathtaking in their artistry. The
3D format proves essential in communicating the contoured surfaces
on which the charcoal figures are drawn. Beyond the walls, Herzog
uses 3D to render the cave’s stalagmites like a crystal cathedral and to
capture stunning aerial shots of the nearby Pont-d’Arc natural bridge.
His probing questions for the cave specialists also plunge deep; for
instance: “What constitutes humanness?”
[Dir. Warner Herzog, 2010, France, 3D Digital Cinema Projection, 95
mins. In English, German and French with English subtitles]
Website: www.ifcfilms.com/films/cave-of-forgotten-dreams
Documentaries
Carol Channing:
Larger Than Life
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The David Suzuki Movie
In Canada, David Suzuki is pretty much an icon: a household
name synonymous with nature and science, best known
as the host of the long-running CBC TV show, The
Nature of Things, and as a pioneering and passionate
environmentalist. Although he is a tad less well-known
here he may be the most inspiring, charming, eloquent,
compelling voice for environmental sanity in the world
today. At the age of 75, he shows no signs of slowing down.
By all measures, David Suzuki is extraordinary, and you
can’t help but wish that everyone cared about the earth
as much as he does—and that everyone could see Force
of Nature because watching this film might make them
care as much as he does! But what drove him to become
the phenomenon he is? This engrossing documentary
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guides us through his life and reveals the key events and people that
shaped him. The occasion for the film is Suzuki’s return to the University
of British Columbia to deliver his legacy lecture to a sold-out audience.
Director Sturla Gunnarsson interweaves Suzuki’s stirring and insightful
address with candid interviews to create a captivating portrait of a man
whose essential decency speaks volumes about the beauty of the planet
he’s trying so hard to save.
[Dir. Sturl Gunnarsson, 2010, Canada, 35mm, 93 mins. In English and
Japanese with English subtitles]
Website: www.davidsuzuki.org
This film is part of the sidebar Seeing Green.
If A Tree Falls: A Story
of the Earth Liberation Front
Best Editing, Sundance Film Festival,
Best Documentary, Dallas International Film Festival,
Best Documentary, Nashville Film Festival,
Earth Vision Environmental Film Award,
Santa Cruz Film Festival
Marshall Curry’s documentary tells a timely story of
environmental conflict and subsequent political action.
His reconstruction of the recent history and unraveling
of the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) is a fascinating
exploration of a modern revolutionary movement and
its efficacy. Fusing fervent concerns about ecological
imbalance and capitalism run amok, ELF members and
sleeper cells employed economic sabotage by destroying
facilities involved in deforestation to remove the profit
potential from companies wreaking environmental
destruction. Focusing on Oregon-based activist Daniel
McGowan, Curry relates the tale of a mild-mannered,
middle-class citizen driven to extremes and brought to
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trial on charges of terrorism for his participation in ELF-related arson
plots. Detailing activists’ past disillusionment with public protest—and
the police brutality and inertia that often followed—the film poses
difficult questions about the possibility of effecting change from either
within or outside the system and examines the changed stakes for
revolutionaries today in a world fixated on branding all dissenters as
terrorists .
[Dir. Marshall Curry, 2011, US, video, 85 mins.]
Website: www.ifatreefallsfilm.com
This film is part of the sidebar Seeing Green.
Documentaries
Force of Nature:
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The Interrupters
Living, breathing, modern-day heroes are inspiring hope
on the scary streets of Chicago. Meet the Interrupters—
former gang members who disrupt violence in their
neighborhoods as it happens. Acclaimed director Steve
James [Hoop Dreams, Stevie ] working with noted author
Alex Kotlowitz, recounts the gripping stories of men and
women who, with bravado, humility, and humor, strive to
protect their communities from the brutality they once
employed. With his signature intimate vérité, James
follows these individuals over the course of a year as
they attempt to intervene in disputes before they turn
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violent: two brothers who threaten to shoot each other, an angry
teenage girl just home from prison, and a young man on a warpath
of revenge. Both a voyage into the stubborn persistence of bloodshed
in our cities today and a beacon of light, James’s unforgettable
documentary captures each Interrupter’s inspired work, transporting
us on a powerful journey from crime to trust to redemption.
[Dir Steve James, 2011, US, Blu Ray, 125 mins]
Website: http://interrupters.kartemquin.com/
Jane’s Journey
More than 20 years ago, Dr. Jane Goodall gave up
her career as a primatologist - and any semblance
of a private life - to devote her astonishing energy to
saving our endangered planet. Now 75, she travels
the globe 300 days a year, spreading hope by giving
lectures, writing books, and promoting Roots & Shoots,
her youth organization that is active in more than 100
countries. She has taken on the responsibilities of a
UN Messenger of Peace, and has been honored with
countless awards. This documentary offers an intimate
portrait of the private person behind the world-famous
icon, possibly the most fascinating woman of our time,
whose scientific breakthroughs are considered to be
among the most important of the past 100 years. Jane’s
Journey crisscrosses the world with the peace-seeking
woman who has been compared to Mahatma Gandhi.
thursnov 10
2:55 pm-4:50 pm
SUn
10:25 am-12:20 pm
NOV 13
Sponsored by:
Dolphin Dreaming
From her childhood home in Bournemouth, England, we travel with
her to Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania, where she began her
groundbreaking chimpanzee research. Jane’s quiet dignity touches
all creatures great and small, from the flatlands of Nebraska to the
melting glaciers of Greenland. She speaks gently with traumatized
children in African refugee camps as deftly as she tames wild Hollywood
celebrities. “Here we are,” she says, “the cleverest species ever to have
lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?” If anyone
can bring us to our senses, it’s Dr. Jane.
[Dir. Lorenz Knauer, 2011, Germany/Tanzania, 35mm, 107 mins. In English]
Website: www.janesjourney.net
This film is part of the Seeing Green sidebar
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An appetizing documentary in every sense, Jiro, Dreams
of Sushi follows 85-year-old master sushi chef Jiro
Ono, owner of the esteemed 10-seat, $300-a-plate
Sukiyabashi Jiro restaurant in Tokyo. From the ins-andouts of the tuna auction to the proper way to massage
an octopus, director David Gelb dynamically profiles all
aspects of the craft in mouthwatering style and detail,
paying lushly photographed homage to the process of
preparing the artisan sushi that earned Jiro an elite
three Michelin stars. Beyond its cinematic celebration
of the art of sushi, Jiro, Dreams of Sushi is also a film
fundamentally about family, tradition, and the value
Sponsored by:
thursnov 10
7:00 pm-8:25 pm
FRI
12:00 pm-1:25 pm
John R. Metz
NOV 11
of hard work. The complicated relationship between the master and
Yoshikazu, his son and heir apparent, is a story of legacy, succession,
and intergenerational tension—universal themes that transcend the
specificity of their epicurean world. This emotionally resonant study of
a son living in his father’s shadow is couched in an operatic spectacle
of some of the world’s preeminent chefs at work, making Jiro a tasty
treat that will satisfy all viewers’ cinematic cravings.
[Dir. David Gelb, US, 2011, 35mm, 81 mins. In Japanese with English subtitles]
Website: www.Jiromovie.com
Project Nim
From director James Marsh and the Oscar®-winning
team behind Man on Wire [RBIFF] comes the story of Nim,
the chimpanzee. In the 1970’s, Nim became the focus of
a landmark experiment which aimed to show that an ape
could learn to communicate with language if raised and
nurtured like a human child. Under the auspices of a
psychology professor at Columbia University, the chimp
would be taught the sign language of the deaf and it
was hoped he would soon acquire enough words and
grammar to tell us what he was thinking and feeling.
If successful, the consequences would be profound,
Newport Beach Film Festival, Best Documentary
Sponsored by:
thursnov 10
8:35 pm-10:15 pm
Eric Kafka, Psychologist
FRI
8:20 pm-10:00 pm
delmarvanow!com
NOV 11
forever breaking down the barrier between man and his closest animal
relative and fundamentally redefining what it is to be human. Following
Nim’s extraordinary journey through human society, and the enduring
impact he makes on the people he meets along the way, Project Nim
is an unflinching and unsentimental biography of an animal we tried
to make human. What we learn about his true nature—and indeed our
own—is comic, revealing, and profoundly unsettling.
[Dir. James Marsh, 2011, United Kingdom, 35mm, 93 mins]
Website: www.project-nim.com
Documentaries
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Revenge of the
Electric Car
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Best Feature Charleston International Film Festival
Best Picture Breckinridge Festival of Film
Best Picture Hoboken Film Festival
Best Picture Big Island Film Festival
You can’t kill an idea whose time has come. When the
freeway-speed electric car first appeared on the market
in the 1990s, its mass production and commercialization
was abruptly—and dubiously—shut down. But a few
short years later, behind the closed doors of Tesla,
General Motors, and Nissan, the race is on to develop
an affordable and stylish electric car that could win over
a skeptical public. Director Chris Paine’s energetic and
beautifully shot follow-up to Who Killed the Electric
Car? is fueled by unprecedented access to the sweat
and tears of four entrepreneurs ready to risk nearly
everything: Tesla Motors’ Silicon Valley wild card Elon
Musk, global warming skeptic and GM’s auto industry
SAT
NOV 12
5:10 pm-6:45 pm
SUn
NOV 13
10:00 am-11:35 am
legend Bob Lutz, Lebanese-Brazilian visionary and Nissan CEO Carlos
Ghosn, and do-it-yourself car converter Greg “Gadget” Abbott. Beyond
the environmental arguments, Paine explores the entrepreneurial
charisma and sheer audacity it takes to invent both the technology and
the business models needed to jumpstart the electric car in the world
market. Whether or not they hit gold, the prize for success is for all of
us. Sometimes change has too much momentum to be stopped.
[Dir Chris Paine, 2011, US, Blu Ray, 90 mins]
Website: www.revengeoftheelectriccar.com
Wish Me Away
“Sometimes living one’s honest life is damn near
impossible.” Or so it felt to award-winning country music
star Chely Wright for most of her closeted life—first raised
as a child in a Christian home in a tiny Bible-Belt town
and then as a member of the homophobic country music
industry in Nashville. Surrounded by a family, community,
culture, and religion that all believed that being gay is
just wrong (and, to many, “of the devil”), Wright prayed
regularly for God to rid her of her homosexuality, vowing
to give up on love in return. Instead, music became her
love, as she scored hits like “Shut Up and Drive” and
“Single White Female”. But while her dreams of stardom
came true, she remained tormented by her sexuality and
paralyzed by the fear of coming out. Would the country
music industry tolerate a lesbian in their ranks? Would
Best Documentary OUTFEST, Los Angeles Gay and
Lesbian Film Festival, Outstanding Documentary
Feature, FRAMELINE, San Francisco Gay and Lesbian
Film Festival, Audience Award Best Film Nashville
Film Festival, Best Documentary Jury Award, QFest,
Philadelphia Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
Sponsored by:
SAT
NOV 12
10:25 am-12:05 pm
WXPN-FM
SUn
NOV 13
1:45 pm-3:25 pm
her fans reject her? She tried dating men (including fellow country star
Brad Paisley), poured her energy into philanthropic endeavors, and
contemplated suicide before finally acknowledging what she knew she
needed to do. In 2010, she began calculated preparations to release
an album and a book [Like Me] that would finally reveal her comingout story and make country music history. Through sometimes-tearful
interviews and conversations, video diary entries, music videos, and
several of her songs, this touching portrait follows Wright up to her fullcourt media press, from Oprah to People magazine as she discovers the
transformational power of living an authentic life.
[Dirs. Bobbie Birleffi and Beverly Kopf, 2011, US, video, 95 mins]
Website: www.wishmeawaydoc.com
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M i x e d B ag
I tried my best to come up with a theme... Beauty? Identity?
Self Discovery? Fables? None of them worked so, once
again, here is a program with nothing in common except they
are good.
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 110 mins.
Sponsored by:
Thurs
NOV 10
12:00 pm-1:55 pm
Hole By Hole
SAT
NOV 13
7:45 pm-9:40 pm
SUn
NOV 14
10:20 am-12:15 pm
Preferably Blue
Mouths of Sand (Ondar Ahoak)
In this animated tale we learn that not everyone loves
Christmas…especially the Easter Bunny. Maybe it is
holiday jealousy or the fact that Santa has a Missus while
EB does not, but whatever the reason, we see through this
dark tale that the Easter Bunny is not a fan of Christmas.
This is not your traditional Christmas story…be warned.
Part travelogue, part education on migratory patterns of
tuna, this short is a beautiful homage to the fisherman
and sailors who have paved the way. Styled like no other,
Mouths of Sand will mesmerize you while it informs you
as well.
[Dir. Alan Dickson, New Zealand, 2011, Blu Ray, 11 mins.]
[Dir. Angel Aldarondo, Spain, 2011, video, 5 mins.
In Basque with English subtitles]
The Astronaut on the Roof
West of the Moon
The Astronaut on the Roof is a comical road movie about
two scriptwriters. They write a film about two scriptwriters,
who write a film about a teenage couple who become
bank robbers. Sound simple enough? Did I mention the
bloody human finger in the trash can, a character called
Mr. Mystery Man, a motel room, ninjas and of course the
astronaut. So what is this film about?
A narrative work of fiction based on a series of interviews
in which children talk about their dreams. This fantasy
tinged, gorgeously filmed short is certainly something
you will not soon forget from a director you will be
hearing from much more. He was just named one of the
25 Faces to Watch in independent film.
[Dir. Sergi Portabella, Germany, 2010, video, 10 mins.
In English]
[Dir. Brett Bonacorso, US, 2010, video, 10 mins.]
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Ebony Society
One night out stealing, two boys find something unexpected in one of their
victim’s houses, and learn a valuable lesson.
[Dir. Tammy Davis, New Zealand, 2011, 35mm, 13 mins.]
The Winter Boy
A mother questions whether her son will ever shine again.
[Dir. Rachel House, New Zealand, 2010, 35mm, 8 mins.]
The Red Curtains
(Les Rideaux Rouges)
An Oedipus without a complex: Jose, a young man and an orphan, and Pablo,
a boy of 13, flee the city, under threat and condemned to drift. Jose, who has
to solve the mystery of his identity, is going to have to enter the adult world
and set off to find his destiny through a long, solitary dialogue with nature
and the rhythms of the world. The film provides a contemporary vision of an
ancestral myth.
[Dir. Alain Deymier, Spain, 2011, 35mm, 35 mins. In Spanish with English subtitles]
Careful With that Crossbow
Forget the power tool, throw away the axe, this time our favorite young boy
has fun in the park firing a crossbow... at his sister.
[Dir. Jason Stutter, New Zealand, 2011, 35mm, 2 mins.]
Water Lilies in Bloom
(Vannliljer i blomst)
The suspended synchronized swimming guru Labanosov entices overweight
women to join him in his mission to prove Isaac Newton wrong at the
Championships. Will he succeed in showing the world that big is not only
beautiful, but buoyant as well?
[Dir. Emil Stang Lund, Norway, 2010, 35mm, 16 mins. In Norwegian with
English subtitles]
Short Films
M i x e d b ag
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10% SHORTS
This 10% Shorts program has a little of everything: Fantasy
and reality, younger people and older people, love returned
and love unrequited, soldiers and princesses, blind and bald…
and of course there are the numerous musical numbers.
Sponsored by:
Thurs
NOV 10
8:20 pm-10:15 pm
CAMP Rehoboth
FRi
NOV 11
12:15 pm-2:10 pm
TOTAL RUNNING TIME 107 mins.
AWOL
Days before her deployment to Afghanistan, Joey comes
home to rural Pennsylvania for Christmas with dreams of
running away to Canada. Will she do it? Will she make
the trek alone?
[Dir. Deb Shoval, US, 2011, video, 14 mins.]
I Don’t Want To Go Back Alone
(Eu Não Quero Voltar Sozinho)
In this tender short, the arrival of a new student in
school changes Leonardo’s life. This 15-year-old blind
teenager has to deal with the jealousy of his friend
Giovana while figuring out the romantic feelings he’s
having for his new friend Gabriel.
[Dir. Daniel Ribeiro, Brazil, 2010, video, 17 mins. In
Portuguese with English subtitles]
Lust Life
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Caught between what was and what could be, a woman
who has lost her lust for life in Paris, the world’s most
passionate city, takes a chance. Sexy, intimate, and
with mood and atmosphere to burn, the film brims with
passion just like the setting.
While every gay man has a relationship to the aging
process, each reaction is different. The hilarious 52
is one gay man’s nightmare about aging, starring the
amazing Scott Thompson (The Kids in the Hall).
[Dir. Lynda Tarryk, US, 2011, video, 9 mins.]
[Dir. Josh Levy, Canada, 2011, video, 4 mins.]
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Short Films
10% S horts
Requited
No Direction
Nicolas struggles to decide whether to go to the wedding
of his best friend from high school, Aaron, whom he’s
always been quietly in love with. The two had a falling
out years earlier after Nicolas inexplicably kissed
Aaron’s girlfriend. Nicolas clings to an idealized image
of his former friend, subconsciously sabotaging his own
happiness in the process. Requited is a realistic sliceof-life that poses the question, “How do you get over
something you never had?”
Life in the big world is tough when you’re a Philosophy
major fresh from college graduation. Looking for
guidance, Jamie falls in love with the GPS in her parents’
car. Cute, quirky and downright adorable are just a few
of the many descriptors for No Direction.
[Dir. Melissa Finell, US, 2011, video, 13 mins.]
[Dir. Sal Bardo, US, 2011, video, 20 mins.]
Bald Guy (Skallamann)
The Maiden and the Princess
A lively musical film dealing with a young man’s quest
for love and acceptance, this short examines the issue of
promoting yourself and loving whomever you want. It’s
a film about forbidden and boundless love and the risk
of losing everything when you choose to challenge the
morally accepted. Oh, and it’s about a bald guy.
Little Emmy Adams kisses a girl on the playground and
is left feeling isolated and alone. The Grand High Council
of Fairy Tale Rules and Standards led by Bernard (Julian
Sands) sends her a hetero-normative fairytale to set
her down the ‘right’ path in life. With the help of fairy
godmother and rogue fairytale narrator, Hammond,
Emmy searches for herself amidst this musical fairytale.
[Dir. Maria Bock, Norway, 2011, video, 12 mins. In
Norwegian with English subtitles]
[Dir. Ali Scher, US, 2010, Blu Ray, 18 mins.]
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It Came from Cannes
In honor of the Country Spotlight: France, we bring you a group
of short films that premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.
Ok, so maybe it is a stretch to link these films from all over the
world, to a French sidebar….but we did. After all, the Cannes
Film Festival is the best representation of film in France!
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 89 Minutess.
The WeDding Party
(La Fiesta de Casamiento)
Relationships and family can be difficult at times, and The
Wedding Party is a prime example.
FRI
NOV 11
5:45 pm-7:20 pm
SAT
NOV 12
4:30 pm-6:05 pm
Sponsored by:
Hampton Inn - Rehoboth Beach
Junior
Justine, a.k.a. Junior, is a 13-year-old tomboy with
pimples and her own brand of humor. She’s just a tad
misogynous. After being diagnosed with stomach flu,
Junior’s body undergoes a bizarre metamorphosis.
[Dirs. Gastón Margolin and Martín Morgenfeld,
Argentina, 2011, DVD, 19 mins. In Spanish with
English subtitles]
[Dir. Julia Ducournau, France, 2011, video, 22 mins.
Tomorrow Will Be Good
(Demain ca Sera Bien)
Las Palmas
Tomorrow Will Be Good, could be subtitled “A Portrait
of Two Pissed-Off Girls”. While that would be fitting,
there is much more to the story of two girls living on
the margins of society. This short does not take place on
the mean streets as often depicted in the US version of
the same story, but the plot is unforgiving just the same.
Life is life and we watch as the girls deal with it.
[Dir. Pauline Gay, France, 2011, DVD, 16 mins.
A middle-aged lady on a holiday in the sun tries to make
new friends and have a good time. Sounds nice, but when
you consider the lady is played by a one-year-old girl,
the rest of the cast are marionette puppets, and all the
sets are fabric, the film becomes a hysterical ride.
[Dir. Johannes Nyholm, Sweden, 2011, 35mm, 13 mins.
No dialogue]
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Cold
The Changeling
(Der Wechselbalg)
Cold is a short film about winter, about being in love,
and losing your love. Thirteen-year-old Jon experiments
with alcohol at a school party. He ends up being ejected
for drunken and disorderly behavior, and has to be
taken home by his father. We meet him the next day in
conversation with his friends exploring the underlying
themes of love, shame, and belonging.
An animated film version of the beloved story by Selma
Lagerloef, The Changeling tells the story of a married
couple whose child was replaced with a troll child. This
simple story, part fable, part morality tale, will leave you
with a smile.
[Dir. Lisa Marie Gamlem, Norway, 2011, 35mm, 11
mins. In Norwegian with English subtitles]
[Dir. Maria Steinmetz, Germany, 2011, 35mm, 9 mins. In
German with English subtitles]
Short Films
It Came from Cannes
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R eg iona l s howc a s e
Once again it is our pleasure to present films that represent the mid-Atlantic region. I say this every year, but the number of films and
the quality keeps growing and this year could be the finest year ever! A Philadelphia filmmaker sets her latest film, a romantic road
movie of sorts, in Rehoboth. A Baltimore filmmaker takes a look at his own school district (Baltimore City) and a desire to move toward
better cafeteria food. We bring back a favorite from the Delmarva Roots Series as we take a look at the voices of World War II by Southern
Delawareans who were there. Delaware’s well known illustrator extraordinaire Howard Pyle is given the film treatment by a filmmaker
working just three blocks from where Pyle’s studio used to be. Finally Delaware’s Coastal Act and the gentleman who pushed hard to
ensure the legislation passed, [the late Governor Russell W. Petersen], are discussed in the new film by a Festival favorite director.
An Evolving Legacy: Delaware’s Coastal Act
Forty years ago, the late Governor Russell W. Peterson championed Delaware’s landmark
Coastal Zone Act to preserve our shoreline. An Evolving Legacy: Delaware’s Coastal
Zone Act recounts the dramatic struggle to craft this visionary legislation, its 40-year
history and the ongoing challenges all Delawareans face as we struggle to balance
our desire for industrial development with our love for unspoiled natural habitats.
Director Michael Oates [The Storm of 62 ] is back with another educational film that
also entertains.
Regional connection: The subject is how a former Governor of Delaware
advances important legislation that impacts the coast of Delaware. Director Michael
Oates lives in Arden, Delaware
Fri
NOV 11
Sponsored by:
[Dir. Michael Oates, 2011, DVD, 56 mins]
2:30 pm-3:50 pm
delmarvanow!com
[includes post-screening Q&A with the director]
Cafeteria Man
Cafeteria Man is the true story of a rebel, charismatic chef from New Orleans, Tony
Geraci, and his mission to radically reform Baltimore’s public school food system by
replacing pre-plated, processed foods with locally-grown, freshly-prepared meals.
The film follows two years of struggles and breakthroughs in the making of real social
change in a challenging urban setting with national ramifications. Cafeteria Man is
about a chef with a recipe for change. It begins in Baltimore, proceeds to the US
Congress, then the White House, and culminates in a national call to action.
Regional connection: The film is set within the Baltimore City School District
and the filmmaker Richard Chisolm lives in Baltimore.
[Dir. Richard Chisolm, 2011, Blu Ray, 65 mins]
Sun
NOV 13
12:00 pm-1:25 pm
From writer/director Alison Bagnall comes the poignant film, The Dish and the Spoon.
Greta Gerwig is Rose, a woman descending into an emotional tailspin after her
husband admits to an affair. Hell-bent on revenge, she drives to a boarded-up Delaware
beach town to hunt down the other woman. Instead, she discovers a stranded British
teenage boy (exciting newcomer Olly Alexander) marooned on the beach. This lost
boy becomes her constant companion and caretaker. The mismatched pair stumbles
through a series of small adventures that build towards an unconventional romance
in this affecting film.
Regional connection: The Dish and the Spoon was filmed in Rehoboth Beach and
surrounding areas and the Writer/Director Alison Bagnall lives in Philadelphia.
SAT
NOV 12
Sponsored by:
6:25 pm-8:35 pm
[Dir. Alison Bagnall, 2010, US, video, 92 mins]
[This screening will be preceded by the top three shorts from the Dogfish Head
Short Film Competition. See the best of off-centered films for off-centered people.]
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Howard Pyle & the Illustrated Story
Stylish and sweepingly informative, Howard Pyle and the Illustrated Story explores the
history, artistry and spectacular rise of this amazing artist. The documentary reveals
Howard Pyle’s (1853-1911) talents as prolific author, illustrator, and teacher. It shows
how Pyle established a new standard of excellence in turn-of-the-century American
graphic art. Interviews with artists Jamie Wyeth and Darrell Warren [Pirates of
the Caribbean] uncover the many stylistic influences Pyle contributed to painting,
illustration and modern cinema. The film was written, directed and produced by
Wilmington native, Paul Mento of Silver Hand Productions. Mento’s production studio
is located three blocks from Pyle’s former studio.
SUN
NOV 13
Sponsored by:
Regional connection: Writer/Director Paul Mento is native and current resident
of Wilmington, Delaware. Subject Howard Pyle was born, raised, and was a longtime
resident of Wilmington, Delaware.
2:45 pm-4:00 pm
Rehoboth Art League
[Dir. Paul Mento, 2011, US, Blu Ray, 46 mins]
Vanishing Voices of World War II
Vanishing Voices of World War II features recollections from two dozen of the 100
veterans included in James Diehl’s two books, World War II Heroes of Southern
Delaware, and World War II Heroes of Coastal Delaware. Told from the perspective of
veterans who served during that time period, and today call Southern Delaware home,
this documentary allows Delawarean World War II veterans’ voices to be heard forever.
Their stories are emotional, real, and so very candid. From Pearl Harbor, to Iwo Jima,
D-Day and the Battle of the Bulge, among many other parts of the war, they are told
with passion and an enormous amount of pride for the United States of America.
SAT
NOV 12
Sponsored by:
Regional connection: The stories told in the documentary are those of veterans
living in Southern Delaware and Writer/Director James Diehl is a resident of
Seaford, Delaware
1:50 pm-3:10 pm
delmarvanow!com
[Dir. James Diehl, 2009, US, video, 55 mins]
Regional Showcase
R eg iona l s howc a s e
On Sc r e e n i n Pe r son
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On Sc r e e n/ I n Pe r son
The Rehoboth Beach Film Society is pleased to be selected by the Mid-Atlantic Arts
Foundation to be a host site for the first year of the On Screen/In Person film touring
program. The goal of this program is to bring the vision of some of the country’s best
independent filmmakers to a broad audience throughout the mid-Atlantic region,
especially in communities with limited access to their work. On Screen/In Person
will tour new independent, American films, including animation, documentaries,
experimental, and narrative work accompanied by the filmmaker.
On Screen/In Person is a six-film series. We are fortunate to be able to screen one of
the films as part of this year’s Festival.
In Good Time, The Piano Jazz of Marian Mcpartland
In Good Time, The Piano Jazz of Marian McPartland documents the life and
career of jazz legend Marian McPartland as a musician, composer, and host of
National Public Radio’s Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz. A native of England,
McPartland arrived in America in 1948 with her husband Jimmy McPartland
and established herself as a leading musician in the male dominated jazz world.
Now 93, McPartland tells her own story through interviews filmed over 4 years.
The film features McPartland’s own harmonically rich compositions and piano
improvisations. She is seen performing and regaling audiences with her wit
and stories in clubs, concerts, and Piano Jazz recording sessions with Dr. Billy
Taylor, Elvis Costello, Dave Brubeck, Diana Krall, Bill Frisell, Nnenna Freelon,
Renee Rosnes, Dick Hyman, and others. The film features McPartland’s own
musical compositions and improvisations rich with harmonic inventions and
lovely melody lines.
[Dir. Huey, 2011, US, video, 85 mins.]
WEBSITE: www.filmsbyhuey.com
On Screen/In Person is made possible by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation
through the generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts’
Regional Touring Program. A special thanks to Delaware Division of the
Arts for additional financial support.
SAT
NOV 12
Sponsored by:
10:30 am-12:25 pm
Beth Hochholzer & Alan Barthelman
Upcoming On Screen/In Person screenings:
Feb 11, 2012: Money Matters
Mar10,2012: Family Talk
Apr 21,2012: BLAST!
What a Difference a Doc Makes!
Sat, 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Big Tent (bump-out)
No charge
Ric Edevane (President, Delaware Independent Filmmakers) will facilitate a discussion with filmmaker Huey Coleman
about the similarities and differences of making a documentary compared to a feature or other film.
If you are a novice filmmaker, an experienced filmmaker, a wanna-be filmmaker, or you love docs, this is a wonderful
opportunity to talk directly with filmmaking professionals. Take advantage of this chance to ask questions and learn from
the experiences of others.
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Sex(y) in the Cinema
10:00 am – 11:30 am, Thur [Nov 10]
The Big Tent, behind Movies at Midway
Admission: Free (Advance registration is not required)
When it comes to movie ratings, much has changed. XXX and even X has fallen by the wayside
and R has become the new X. PG became such an overused rating that a new subcategory of PG-13 was
added. While G may still be G, many films that would have been PG in the past are now acceptable to
all audiences. While the ratings are indicative of many factors (violence, language, nudity, and sexual
content), we might have seen the most drastic changes with reactions to sex.
Sex in the cinema is nothing new. The issue has been, and will continue to be controversial.
Sexual content may have morphed from purely sexual acts to issues of sexual identity. The Last Tango
in Paris started the debate of how much is too much. To many, this film today would not be the shocker
it was in 1972. The American society’s “acceptance” of sex has grown, and while still repressed on a
global perspective, what was once unheard of is now tolerated. In the past, sexual subject matter was
only found in art house and independent cinema. Not only has this changed, but often blockbusters like
Transformers and The X-Men are able to discuss more sexual topics and still beat the ratings board out
of a R (a box office danger word). Similar subjects in art house films are still considered too racy for
PG-13. While things might have changed dramatically with sex and the purely physical act, the issue of
sexual identity and more taboo sexual situations still remains a hurdle for ratings board and general
audiences.
SEX(Y) IN THE CINEMA takes a look at the themes of sex, sexual identity and how they are
portrayed on screen. How have the themes changed over decades? Do the audiences receive a benefit
from the ratings of films and are they truly a good barometer of sexual content in a particular film? In
the near future, will differences with regard to sexuality and sexual identity be more accepted? These
are just a few of the issues that will be discussed, and pondered by Dr. Julia Mendenhall, Assistant
Professor of English and Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at Temple University. Your questions
and comments will be a welcomed part of the seminar.
JULIA MENDENHALL, Phd
Spending ecstatic childhood summers in cinematic Rehoboth Beach surely played a vital role in Julia Mendenhall’s desire
to study film, literature, and globalization theory in her adulthood. She is now an Assistant Professor at Temple University,
where she teaches classes in cinema studies, writing, and gender, sexuality and women’s studies. She was a documentary
film juror for the Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, held a Fulbright Scholarship in Canada to conduct
research on Canadian lesbian films, and really loves watching and discussing hot, racy films in the cool of November.
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9:00 am – 10:30 am, Sat [Nov 12]
Upstairs Screening Room, Movies at Midway
Admission: Free [Advance registration is not required]
Welcome Jason Butler Harner to this year’s festival, one of the featured actors in the film The
Green (page 33). Harner is a multi-talented actor who has starred in film, television, and theatre. From
indie film to commercial blockbusters, from London’s West End to Broadway, he has left an indelible
mark on the profession of acting.
A native of Northern VA, Harner got his feet wet in the flourishing theatre scene in DC starting with
productions while at T.C. Williams High School. While President of his drama club, he spent most of
his time behind the scenes. He continued his interest in acting at Virginia Commonwealth University in
Richmond, VA, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting in 1992. After graduating from
VCU, he was an apprentice at Actors Theatre of Louisville, and subsequently moved to New York City and
received a Master of Fine Arts in the Graduate Acting Program from Tisch School of the Arts in 1997.
Harner returned to VCU as a Master Teacher during their 2007-08 Guest Artist program.
Harner might be most well known for his performance in Clint Eastwood’s film The Changeling
as Gordon Stewart Northcott, a mechanic accused of murder. Harner once described this character as
“a horrible, horrible, wonderful person”. After appearing in two films in 2010, Kill the Irishman and The
Extra Man, 2011 was another good year for Harner starring in two feature films, the aforementioned The
Green and the Sundance entry Letters from the Big Man.
Among his TV roles, he appeared in the HBO miniseries, John Adams as Oliver Wolcott, Jr., the
second United States Secretary of the Treasury. He also had a guest role on the pilot for Fringe, and he
was cast as the regular character Silas Hunton on the cable series Possible Side Effects. He has made
numerous guest appearances on such shows as The Good Wife, and CSI.
He made his London theater debut on February 17, 2010 in the Lanford Wilson play Serenading
Louie. Harner appeared on Broadway in The Coast of Utopia and in the West End’s Serenading Louie. His
off-Broadway credits include Through a Glass Darkly, Our Town, Hedda Gabler, The Paris Letter, Orange
Flower Water, The Gingerbread House, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme and
The Ruby Sunrise.
How do you start a career in acting? What are some of the key factors? Is it easier in one of the
disciplines? These questions and many others will be answered as Jason Butler Harner discusses his
career. In a little twist, the moderator for the session will be Rehoboth resident Ed Harner, who also
happens to be Jason’s father. Watching this father and son discuss life as an actor, and quite possibly,
what it’s like to be the parent of an actor is sure to be an interesting angle... come and find out!
Seminars
A CONVERSATION WITH JASON BUTLER HARNER
S e m i na r s
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LUMIERE, NEW WAVE AND
THE NEXT WAVE: A FRENCH CINEMA PRIMER
9:00 am – 10:30 am, Sun [Nov 13]
Upstairs Screening Room, Movies at Midway
Admission: Free [Advance registration is not required]
This year’s Country Spotlight features France. In addition to screening several French films
[page 89] and exposing the audience to French culture [page 86], we look at the French film industry,
some key components, and challenging issues ahead.
French cinema is familiar to many filmgoers worldwide. France has submitted films for the Academy
Award for Best Foreign Language Film category since the conception of the award in 1956. France has
been one of the most successful countries in the world in this grouping with 35 of their 53 submissions
achieving Oscar® nominations and nine won the award, not including Honorary Awards.
The French film industry in the late 19th Century and early 20th Century was among the world’s most
important. Auguste and Louis Lumière invented the cinématographe and their L’Arrivée d’un train en
gare de La Ciotat in Paris in 1895 is considered by many historians as the official birth of cinematography.
After World War I, the French film industry suffered because of a lack of capital, and film production
decreased as it did in most other European countries. In the 40’s the magazine Cahiers du Cinéma founded
by André Bazin, critics and lovers of film would discuss film and why it worked. Modern film theory was
born there. Additionally, Cahiers critics such as Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol,
and Eric Rohmer went on to make films themselves, creating what was to become known as the French
New Wave, one of the most recognizable film movements.
Since the 1960’s, French film has continued to gain in popularity worldwide and is known today as one
of the most powerful and successful countries in cinema.
Join Caroline Eades and Valerie Orlando as they get deep inside the subject. Topics will include
the history of the industry, changes, where French Cinema currently stands in the global market, domestic
versus international aspects of French film, critical successes, and a look at the world renowned Cannes
Film Festival. A question and answer session will be a major part of the seminar as well.
DR. CAROLINE EADES
DR. VALERIE ORLANDO
Caroline Eades specializes in Film Studies and
Contemporary French Culture. She received her PhD in
Film Studies from the Université de la Sorbonne NouvelleParis III and taught at the University of Grenoble, France,
the University of Southern California, and the University of
California at Santa Barbara. Her main fields of research are
European Cinema, Post-Colonial Studies, Film Feminist
Theory, Film and Myth. Her book “Le Cnéma post-colonial
français” appeared in 2006 (Paris: Collections 7eArt,
Editions du Cerf). She is currently working on a book on
Classical Reception in Film for Editions du Cerf. She has
published numerous book-chapters and articles on French
cinema, culture, and literature in American, Canadian,
French, Greek, Brazilian, Swiss, Belgian, and Italian
scholarly series and journals, including The French Review,
Revue de Littérature Comparée, and CinémAction.
Valérie Orlando is Professor of French & Francophone
Literatures in the Department of French & Italian and
currently the Director of the Honors Humanities Program at
the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the author
of four books. She writes on and teaches courses about
Francophone women’s writing from the African diaspora,
African Cinema, and French literature and culture. She
previously taught at Illinois Wesleyan University (19992006); Purdue University (1997-1999); and Eastern
Mediterranean University in the Northern Turkish Republic
of Cyprus (1996-1997)
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Live in the Lounge
In addition to planning your schedule of great films, don’t miss what’s happening in the
Big Tent. As part of the Country Spotlight, we are pleased to bring France to the Rehoboth
Beach Independent Film Festival by showcasing some traditions of the French culture.
Read below to see other activities you may include as part of your Festival experience.
11/11/11 Veterans Tribute
Fri (Nov 11), Beginning 11:11 am
Location: Big Tent
Enjoy the wonderful sounds of the CAMP Rehoboth Chorus as they pay tribute to WW2 veterans with a selection of tunes from the
period. [Sing alongs are welcome]. The CAMP Rehoboth Chorus is directed by William F. McManus and accompanied by David Zipse.
FRENCH LITERARY SALON
Fri (Nov 11), Beginning at 10:00 am
Location: Big Tent (in the bump-out)
By mid-18th century, literary salons had become an institution in aristocratic French society. Mesdames Rambouillet
and Madame DeStael were early organizers of these literary gatherings. Following suit, bring your croissant
and café au lait to a reading of poetry and prose by prize winning authors from the Rehoboth Art League’s
Writers Group.
A TOUR OF FRANCE WINE TASTING
Sat (Nov 12), 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Location: Big Tent
As the largest wine producer, France produces 7 – 8 billion bottles of wine every year from the
world’s second-largest total vineyard area. Teller Wines will take you on a tour of France by
sampling wines produced in the various regions. Learn about the grape varieties, winemaking practices, and styles of wine. Santé!
DOGFISH HEAD BEER TASTING
Sat (Nov 12), beginning at 8:30 pm
Location: Big Tent (in the bump-out)
(Sponsored by Dogfish Head Craft Brewery)
A Festival favorite! Dogfish Head Craft Brewery is known for brewing some of the most innovative beers
and extraordinary spirits. Enjoy samplings of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery’s off-centered ales known for
their non-traditional ingredients.
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Sat (Nov 12), Beginning at 9:15 pm
Location: Big Tent
Transport yourself to the Court of French King Louis XIV as you watch a French Baroque Dance performance. Choregraphie Antique
members from the Dance History Assemble of Goucher College will perform a French Menuet, Gigue á Deux, and a French Bouree
in original Baroque court dresses of the early 18th century fashion. Baroque dance became the basis for later development of
classical ballet. After the performance, audience members can learn a few steps of each dance.
[Special thanks to Chrystelle Bond, (Professor of Dance at Goucher College) and Catherine Turocy (NY Baroque Dance Company).
Their determination to assist the Film Society is what made this event possible.]
50/50 DRAWING
Tickets will be available at the Information Booth in the Big Tent. Drawing: @ 6:00 pm, Sun [Nov 13]
As part of the Film Society’s fundraising efforts, a 50/50 drawing will be held during the Film Festival. The winning ticket will be
picked and announced at the Closing Night Celebration. Tickets are tax deductible and help support Festival production expenses.
Cost: $1.00 per ticket. [Last year’s winner won $508]
ART AUCTION
The original artwork “Harvest Moon”, created by Damon Pla, was the inspiration for the theme of this year’s Festival design. This
painting will be available for purchase via a silent auction to be conducted throughout the Festival. Bids may be placed at the
Information Booth in the Big Tent until 5:00 pm, Sun [Nov 13]. The winning bid will be announced during the Closing Celebration.
CLOSING NIGHT CELEBRATION!
Sun [Nov 13], 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Location: Big Tent
Join the casual, closing of the Rehoboth Beach Independent Film Festival’s fourteenth year.
Audience winners for Best Feature, Best Debut Feature, Best Documentary, and Best Short
will be announced. In addition, the winning 50/50 ticket will be selected and the winning bid
for the art auction.
No ticket is needed for this gathering. Beverages and food can be purchased from
on-site vendors. So relax, reflect, and rejoice at the completion of another great
Festival.
Live in the lounge
French Baroque Dance
COUNTRY SPOT L IG HT: F RANCE
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COUNTRY SPOTLIGHT: FRANCE
France is known for many things; amazing wine, a cuisine second to none, Paris, one of the most
romantic cities in the world and FILM. While cinema may “officially” have started in India, it is France
who could be credited with the start of cinema as we know it today. Several important cinematic
movements, including the Nouvelle Vague, began in France as well as cinematography as an art in
1895 with Auguste and Louis Lumière’s film, L’Arrivée d’un train en gare de La Ciotat .
Apart from its strong indigenous film tradition, France has also been a gathering spot for artists
from across Europe and the world. For this reason, French cinema is sometimes intertwined with the cinema
of foreign nations. Directors from nations such as Poland (Roman Polanski, Krzysztof Kieslowski, and Andrzej
Zulawski), Argentina (Gaspar Noe and Edgardo Cozarinsky), Russia (Alexandre Alexeieff, Anatole Litvak)
and Georgia (Gela Babluani, Otar Iosseliani) are as prominent in the ranks of French cinema as native French
filmmakers.
One of the major factors contributing to the success and longevity of French Cinema is the government’s
support and funding mechanisms. Few other countries are afforded this type of support. The French government
has implemented various measures aimed at supporting local film production and movie theaters. The Canal+
TV channel has a broadcast license requiring it to support the production of movies. Some taxes are levied on
movies and TV channels for use as subsidies for movie production, some tax breaks are given for investment in
movie productions, and the sale of DVDs and videocassettes of movies shown in theaters is prohibited until six
months after the showing in theaters to ensure some revenue for movie theaters.
While many in the US still have difficulty with foreign language films, French films typically are more
widely accepted than films from most other countries. Often the films are not only critically acclaimed but
also well received by the movie-going public. One of the most famous, dare I say the MOST famous festival, is
the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France every May, highlighting the best films from around the world, with
special focus on films from France. A few of these Cannes films are playing in this year’s RBIFF along with other
bright spots in French cinema.
While French cinema does have a distinctive flavor that often makes one proclaim “That was very French”,
and maintains a wide array of genres, themes and budgets creating something for everyone, they really do
craft farces, satires and very quirky comedies like no other country. In this Festival we are very happy to offer
a blend of styles and themes and genres that will provide you a great overview of French cinema.
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The films in Country Spotlight: France are:
Two additional films that are, by production
French, but we are not counting them as
official spotlight films are: The Tree [page
52], a French produced film by a French
director, but the film is in English and
takes place in Australia. Cave of Forgotten
Dreams [page 57] is a French produced
The Conquest
The Fairy
Page: 32
Page: 32
French, they are representative of the most
The Hedgehog
well respected item of French cinema, the
Page: 36
My Afternoons With
Margueritte
film, with a German director and in French
and English. Although the setting is in
France, we again chose not to make it an
official part of the Country Spotlight.
Finally a shorts program It Came From
Cannes [page 70] is made up of shorts
that were a part of this years Cannes
Film Festival. While not all the films are
Page:43
Cannes Film Festival.
To learn more about the cinema of France,
please join us Sat [Nov 12], 9:00 am to 10:30
am for Lumière, New Wave and the Next
Wave: A French Cinema Primer [page 82].
The RoundUp
Tomboy
Page: 46
Page: 51
Women on the Sixth
Floor
Page: 53
Country Spotlight: France
COUNTRY SPOTLIGHT: FRANCE
S i de b a r : G lob a l L e ns 2 011
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GLOBAL LENS 2011
The Global Film Initiative (GFI) was created to promote cross-cultural understanding through the medium
of cinema. Although American film continues to thrive in the global marketplace, filmmaking from
underrepresented countries has suffered from shifting economic conditions in film financing and distribution.
As a result, audiences in the United States have been denied the rich cultural lessons these films have to offer.
The GFI developed four complementary programs to address this situation: Granting, Acquisitions, Distribution,
and Education. The Distribution Program features an annual Film Series consisting of the best cinema from
underrepresented countries with a particular focus on films in languages other than English. Every year, eight
to ten films representing the diversity and excellence of cinema from Africa, Asia, Central & Eastern Europe,
Latin America and the Middle East are chosen by the Initiative for Global Lens and launched as traveling series
in collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA). Following the launch at MoMA, the series
then screens in a variety of festivals and in up to 35 major cities in partnership with cultural institutions across
the United States. Partners are invited to participate based on their demonstrated excellence in community
outreach, commitment to broad educational programming and regional balance.
This year we are happy to present three of the films from the 2011 Global Lens Film Series:
Belvedere
The Light Thief
The White Meadows
(Bosnia & Herzegovina)
(Kyrgyzstan)
(Iran)
Page: 31
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For More information on the Global Film Initiative or the Global Lens Film Series visit www.globalfilm.org.
A Message from the Global Film Initiative:
THE WHITE MEADOWS and Iranian Director Mohammad Rasoulof
In our ongoing support of original, artistic expression through
cinema, the Global Film Initiative extends its deep and steadfast
support to Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof.
In December 2010, it was announced that Mr. Rasoulof was
sentenced to prison for production of his film, The White
Meadows. This film is presented in our Global Lens 2011 film
series, a cinematic platform for the exhibition of narrative
films produced in Africa, Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, Latin
American and the Middle East. Mr. Rasoulof is the fifth Iranian
filmmaker to be introduced to audiences through Global Lens
since its establishment in 2003.
As an organization committed to the free exchange of ideas,
it is our intention to present Mr. Rasoulof’s film to as many
audiences possible throughout the United States and Canada. It
is our belief that as a global society, the restriction of access to
diverse perspectives of the world can eventually lead to a lack of
intercultural understanding and cooperation, which historically
has always then led to conflict. In this regard, Mr. Rasoulof’s
film is a unique vision of Iran that we believe all audiences
should have the opportunity to experience.
The Global Film Initiative encourages you to extend your
support for Mohammad Rasoulof by attending a screening The
White Meadows. It is a living representation of the oft-repeated
phrase that opens every Global Lens series—‘every person
has a voice, every voice tells a story, and every story reveals a
world’—and much like the individual who created it, it is a work
that should not be overlooked, ignored or stifled.
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SAVE THE PLANET! STOP GLOBAL WARMING! SUSTAINABLE FARMING! RENEW, REUSE, AND RECYCLE! Not
a day goes by that we do not hear one of these, or many other slogans, reminding us that we are the stewards
of planet earth and need to heed the warnings. Whether you jump into the action whole heartedly, do the
minimum, or do nothing at all, there is no debate that “going green” will continue to affect us for many years
to come.
As the topic grows in popularity it has manifested itself in the subject matter and the industry of filmmaking.
While it is often easiest to see in the themes, many production companies have made it a mandate for their
filmmaking process to be very eco friendly. Using recycled materials when possible, outfitting the office with
energy saving technology, and shooting locally to cut down on the carbon footprint.
Documentary films seem to be the easiest to utilize green themes, but more and more features are starting to
take into consideration the hot topic. Often subjects tend to be heavy, preachy, and very educationally based.
Factually strong, but void of much emotion they often have a hard time relating to the public.
The films that make up the “Seeing Green” sidebar present important environmentally oriented issues, not
just in a fact-based and educational manner, but also with emotionally solid stories. Instead of hitting you over
the head with fire and brimstone, they let the viewer weigh the facts and make a decision.
The films that make up the Seeing Green Sidebar are:
An Evolving Legacy:
Cafeteria Man (US)
Force of Nature:
If a Tree Falls:
The Delaware Costal Act (US)
Page: 74
David Suzuki Movie (Canada)
A Story of the ELF (US)
Page: 59
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Page: 74
Jane’s Journey
The Light Thief
(Germany/Tanzania)
(Kyrgyzstan)
Revenge of the
Electric Car (US)
Page: 60
Page: 41
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Si de b a r : SEEING GREEN
Seeing Green
C h i ldr e n ’ s C i n e m a Cor n e r
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(For children age 3 to 10)
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm, Sat [Nov 12] Upstairs Screening Room, Movies at Midway
Admission: Free
Children’s Cinema Corner allows even the youngest film fans to enjoy the Festival. This program features
screenings of films adapted from children’s books, a reading corner, craft stations, play dough, and face
painting. And don’t forget, complimentary popcorn will be served!
Dogs aren’t supposed to love cats, who aren’t supposed to befriend birds, according to common
knowledge. However, the first films provide an opposite point of view. Katie Loves the Kittens is about a little
dog who is so delighted when three kittens come to live with her that she can’t stop herself from chasing them.
How can Katie let them know she just wants to play? In Cat and Canary, Cat’s unlikely friend Canary takes him
on an outdoor adventure while their human companion is away at work.
Courage can move us forward and/or hold us back. The next two films show us examples of both. Robot
Zot is the tale of a brave robot determined to conquer the earth. When he meets his true love, a toy cell phone,
his mission suddenly takes a heroic new course. Scardey Squirrel never leaves his nut tree because it is way
too dangerous out in the world. His worst nightmare comes true when he suddenly finds himself out of his tree
and he must find the courage to get back home.
The final films are about adventurous experiences! In Joey Runs Away, a young kangaroo roams the
countryside to look for a new home when he doesn’t feel like cleaning up his messy room. When Mrs. Gimble’s
peg-leg cat is mistaken for a hat, he goes for a ride atop her brother’s bald head in The Three-Legged Cat. In
The Day Jimmy’s Boa Ate the Wash, a boring class trip to the farm becomes lively when Jimmy’s pet snake
causes chaos as one zany incident leads to another.
Parent(s)/guardian(s) must sign in any child attending Children’s Cinema Corner. Parents are encouraged
to stay and enjoy the films and activities with their child(ren). If a parent/guardian chooses to leave a child at
this event, contact information must be provided and the child must be picked up by 3:00 pm.
Thank you to the following for assisting with this program:
Movies at Midway for providing popcorn.
Sussex County Reading Council, an affiliate of Diamond State Reading Association, for providing supplies and
volunteers for Children’s Cinema Corner.
Weston Woods for providing the films for Children’s Cinema Corner. Weston Woods is a division of Scholastic
Corporation, the world’s largest publisher and distributor of children’s books and a leader in educational
technology. For more information, please call 1-800-243-5020 or visit www.scholastic.com/westonwoods or
www.scholastic.com.
F i e r b e rg Awa r d
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Morris and Roslyn Fierberg Student Film Award
Both Morris and Roz were actively involved in the development of the Rehoboth Beach Film Society and
its award-winning Rehoboth Beach Independent Film Festival. In the Festival’s early years, their retail
skills were instrumental in starting a Merchandise Booth. They also assisted with reviewing films,
recruiting additional volunteers, and encouraging others to attend the Festival. Being quite resourceful,
Roz and Morris persuaded two of their sons, Andy and Stephen, to participate by facilitating seminars,
allowing their films to be exhibited, and conducting Q&A(s) after film screenings. The involvement of the
Fierberg family is greatly appreciated.
The Morris and Roslyn Fierberg Student Film Award Endowment Fund was established in 2004 in memory
of Morris Fierberg. The fund’s name was expanded to include Roslyn just prior to her passing in 2010.
The purpose of this award program is to encourage student film production by acknowledging the
outstanding work of a student film director. Full-time high school or undergraduate students from the
United States are eligible to participate.
Each year a review panel consisting of a Fierberg family member or representative, a teacher or
professional in the film production area or art field, and the Film Society’s Education/Outreach
Coordinator screen each submission and rate the films on originality, execution (technical proficiency in
four areas), and overall quality. The first place award is a $1,000 cash prize and the Honorable Mention
award is a $250 gift card.
The Rehoboth Beach Film Society is pleased to announce the following
2011 Morris and Roslyn Fierberg Student Film Award recipients:
First Place: Grant Reed
Grant Reed is a Film Production major at Chapman University in California. He enjoys creating films
exploring serious and controversial issues with a humorous tone. This is evident in Incest! The Musical,
a satirical short film that began as Grant’s idea that it would be “fun to do a musical…about something
awful.” This film centers on a high school brother and sister duo who realize they are in love with one
another. Their story is told in Glee-style musical numbers, performed to perfection by the classmates.
[2011, Runtime: 23 min, USA, Not rated]
Honorable Mention: Zach Wechter
Zach Wechter is an undergraduate at Chapman University in California, where he has produced 20
short films. He has worked as a production assistant on professional television shows such as CMT’s
Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team and MTV’s Styl’d. Zach’s film, Election Day, is a political
thriller set in the backstabbing world of high school student government. [2010, Runtime: 12 min,
USA, Not rated]
The Film Society thanks the Review Panel for their participation in the rating process. Review Panel
members include: Kay Loysen, [Fierberg family representative]; Rob Rector, [Department Chair of
English and Communications at Delaware Technical and Community College]; and David Warick, [founder, Delaware
Comedy Theater].
The Film Society invites film enthusiasts, supporters of the Film Society, as well as friends and relatives of the
Fierberg family to make donations to the Morris and Roslyn Fierberg Student Film Award. Donor generosity will
help the Film Society continue the Fierberg’s commitment to youth and the art of filmmaking. If you are interested
in making a donation to the Morris and Roslyn Fierberg Student Film Award, please contact Sue Early at 302-6459095, or by e-mail: [email protected], or send a check to RBFS, 107 Truitt Ave., Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971.
All donations are tax deductible. Your support is greatly appreciated.
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Neither an earthquake, a hurricane, nor a tornado could interrupt the planning process
for this year’s Rehoboth Beach Independent Film Festival. The year-long process
involves the support and work of many people to whom we say.....
Thank you…
Thank you...
to all the filmmakers and distributors who provide films
that entertain, educate, inspire, and/or emotionally touch
thousand of film viewers.
Karen Fitzpatrick and the Sussex County Reading Council,
an affiliate of Diamond State Reading Association, for
helping to coordinate the Children’s Cinema Corner.
Thank you…
Thank you…
the Derricksons for renting eight Movies at Midway
theaters to the RBFS which allows the audience to enjoy the
convenience of seeing many films at one location.
to the entire Movies at Midway staff for your hard work
during the Festival.
Thank you…
to our summer Festival Film reviewers who assist with
critiquing numerous film submissions. Your input is helpful
with the film selection process.
Media Sponsors Delaware Coast Press/Delaware
Beachcomber/delmarvanow!com for supporting this
event from the beginning.
Thank you…
Thank you...
Thank you…
Delaware Division of the Arts, the Delaware State Arts
Council, and staff liaison Susan Salkin for providing
guidance and financial assistance.
to every Festival attendee for supporting this event.
Your appreciation of the cinematic arts enables the film
selection to include a broad slate of diverse films from
throughout the world.
Thank you…
Thank you…
to each and every SPONSOR (see page 12-13). Your
generosity and commitment, especially during a
challenging economy is greatly appreciated.
to the RBFS staff of Wendi Dennis, Cindy Hall, Malcolm
Keen, Nancy Knapp, Chuck Patalive, Riley Raubacher, and
Gloria Walls for your commitment to providing the best
services possible.
Thank you…
to the ad purchasers and film sponsors for helping to
support production expenses.
Thank you…
Damon Pla for providing the original artwork that was the
inspiration for this year’s Festival design.
Thank you…
Rehoboth Beach Film Society Board of Directors for sharing
your time, wisdom and skills in governing this organization.
A special thanks to Board President Eric Kafka, your
leadership unifies and guides the group effort.
Thank you…
Thank you...
Jeff Hughes (Hughes Design) for creatively designing this
program and other collateral materials.
Thank you…
Beth Hochholzer for editing all the film descriptions, an
enormous task that you so willingly do.
to every volunteer for donating your time and talents
throughout the year. You are the best!
Our thanks to all of you!
Sue Early
Executive Director, Rehoboth Beach Film Society
Joe Bilancio
Program Director, Rehoboth Beach Independent Film Festival
Ou r T h a n k s
Our Thanks…
Members
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The Rehoboth Beach Film Society thanks the following individuals (current members as of 8/22/11)
whose dues support the organization’s year-round operations:
Contributing
Directors
Debra Burke
Kathryn Byrne
David Cristy
Clifford Diver
Lynn Fuqua
James A. Fuqua, Jr.
Darrel Grinstead
Betty Grunder
Gary Grunder
Anne M. Kuhns
Paul Kuhns
Nancy Leggoe
Diane Pirkey
Rita Reimer
Midge Smith
Allen Stafford
Carl Wisler
Suzanne Ziegler
DIRECTOR LEVEL
Emily Abbott
Laura Ambler
Cary Ambler
James Andrews
Patricia Antonisse
Deborah Appleby
Janine Armstrong
Dean Baker
Pamela Baker
Curtiss Barrows
John Barry, Jr.
Alan Barthelman
George Bauer
David Bergman
Jeanette Binstock
Mark Binstock
Cathin Bishop
Lawrence Bost
Cathi Bost
David Boyce
David Brant
Eugene Braverman
Trudy Bryan
Malora Buck
Ken Casazza
Jane Casazza
Denis Casey
Cathy A. Casey
Kathy Casey
Charles Churilla
Tjarda Clagett
Robert Cloutier
Steven Cohen
Linda Cohen
John Coleman
Laura Colker
Jackson Coppley
Ellen Coppley
Robert Corsette
Christine Corsette
Henry Cox
Rosemary Cummings
Mace Cutler
Diane Cutler
Ellen D’Alelio
Julie Davis
Linda Defeo
Beverly Denbo
Jy Denbo
Julie Dickson
Vicki DiVittorio
Diane Dixson
Deanna Duby
Reid Dudley
Lisa Elliott
Gregory Estes
Todd Fishburn
Chris Fisher
Craig Fraser
Joel Ganz, M.D.
Don Gardiner
Helen Gates
Michael Golder
Patricia Goldstein
Mary Good
Roy A. Gordon
Diane Grainer
Marc Grainer
Delores Grigsby
Tim Gualdoni
Steven Haber
Patricia Hannon
Sharon Hansen
Alan Harmon
Edward Harner
Joan Hartogs
Linda Hersey
Bill Hillegeist
Elizabeth Hochholzer
Elizabeth Hofstad
Cindy Holt
Gerald Holtz
Kathy Idziak
Margaret Iorii
Chris Israel
Marti Jacobs
Karen Jacoby
Stan Jensen
Jim Johnson
Judith Jones
Walter Jones
Mick Kaczorowski
Nancy Kaiser
Marcia Kaplin
Arnold Kaplin
Kevin Kaporch
Deborah Kennedy
John Kiker
Barbara Kiker
George Knott
Carol Kolmerten
Charma Konnor
Eric Korpon
Genie Kramedas
Steven Kuchuck
Diane LaPenna
Jane Larson
Curt Leciejewski
Joan LeLacheur
John Lenz
Anita Lenz
Carol Levin
M. Walter Levine
Kay Loysen
Jim Madgey
Michele Mankins
Claire McCabe
William McManus
Brett McNeilly
Karen Medford
Sallie Melvin
Arthur Melvin
John Metz
Warren Michelson
Lee Wayne Mills
Natalie Moss
J. Andrew Murphy
Judy Myers
David Nelson
Kim Nelson
John Newton, Jr.
Robert Nowak
Mary Orlando
Jeff Osterstrom
Rose Osterstrom
Sandra Pace
Rosanne Pack
Sally Packard
Peggy Paul
Michael Peterson
Don Peterson
Beth Pile
Evelyn Pilgrim
Kit Pilgrim
John Pitchford
Nancy Poole
Fran Rachles
Veronica Radalin
Margo Ramage
Gary Ramage
Jay Reamer
Betsy Reamer
Jim Reichert
Sandra Reznick
Lee Rice
Jeff Richman
Laura Ritter
Abigail Ritter
Dennis Rivard
Susan Roehmer
John Roehmer
Robert Rosenberg
Stephen Ross
Janet Russo
Lisa Sable
John Sabo
Laurie Schneider
Susan Schranck
Frederick Schranck
Mona Schwartz
Pat Scott
Faye Seltzer
Barbara Shaver
Matt Shepard
Lori Simmons
Laura Simon
Bob Slavin
John Smeallie
Perrin Smith
Rosanne Smith
C. Wesley Sooy
Mowry Spencer
John Stassi
Phyllis Stearman
Sydney Stearman
Donald Stein
Janie Stoll
Stephen Sumption
Ariane Sumption
Neal Tash
Ronald Tate
Alleane Taylor
Joan Thompson
David Torok
Helen Torosian
David Towey
Joe Tropiano
Michael Tupman
Vivian Unger
Bonnie Walker
Linda Weidman
Doug Weidman
Elva Weininger
S. A. White
Mildred White
Robert Wiltshire
Charles Woods
Katherine Wu
James Wu
Alexander Yearley
EXECUTIVE
PRODUCER LEVEL
Anita Adams
Ken Adams
Adelyn Aker
Marc Albert
Cynthia Albright
Jo Ann Ali
Lois Anderson
Jim Antonisse
Peggy Antonisse
Natalie Aussprunk
Ann Bailey
Esther Baker
Steven Baker
Kim Bakhtier
Pat Bangs
Marisa Barra
Maria Barrera
Colleen Barry
Johannah Barry
Dick Bawcombe
Sally Bawcombe
Margaret Beatty
Diana Beebe
Carole Benjamin
Peter Berkery, Jr.
Judith Berkman
Christine Besche
Sander Bieber
Bruce Bigelow
Leon Billings
Cherry Billings
Beverly Billingsley
Jenifer Blair
Michael Blake
Sandra Blake
Karen Blood
Jane Blue
Burma Bochner
Rick Bochner
George Bockius
Jean Bohner
Constance Bond
Carol Boros
Seymour Brecher
Carol Bresler
Robert Brewer, Jr.
Sandy Browning
Bruce Bryen
Albert Buchanan
Emory Buck
Anne Buck
Jon Burke
Mary Burns
Joann Burstein
Philip Burstein
Carla Burton
Evan Bush
Sandy Cameli
Laurel Capodanno
Lynne Cardwell
Mary Carpenter
Dorothy Cartagena
Judy Catterton
Ken Catterton
Debra Catts
Sara Cavendish
Monica Chai
Robert Chambers
Edward Chase
Patricia Chase
Deborah Chase
Thomas Childers
Dorothy Chimienti
Stan Chincheck
Tammy Chincheck
Curt Christensen
Jacquie Christman
Larry Christman
James Chupella
Maria Ciuffetelli
Randall Clayton
Gary Clemmons
Valerie Cloutier
Chris Coburn
Rochelle Cohen
Jane Cohen
Gary Colangelo
Allison Colker
Peggy Conception
Jeff Conrad
Patrick J. Cooper
Audrey Cordrey
Karen Cormier
Constance Costigan
Carolyn Cotter
John Cotter
Martin Craft
Richard Culver
Rose Cybak
Helen Daley
Diane Daum
Nadinia Davis
Jackson Davis
Marsha Davis
Betty Deacon
Michael Decker
Sonja Decker
Hoyte Decker
George Demko
Joan Demko
Deborah Dickey
Marie Digennaro
Mary DiPietro
Arthur Dochterman
Laura Dotterer
Zita Dresner
Lynda Dunham
Eugene Dvornick
Carol Eason
Jim Ellison
Carole Ellison
Mack Emmert
Donna Emory
Janice Erich
Jim Esposito
Anne Evans
John Ewald
Susan Farnandis
Elaine Faye
Nancy Feichtl
Joseph Feichtl
Ellen Feinberg
Pam Feinstein
Rich Feinstein
Donna Ferragut
Gail Fertel
Marvin Fertel
Susan Fewell
Pamela Finkelman
Sally Fintel
Cheryl Fischer
Roy Fitzgerald
Helen Flood
Mary Folan
Mark Ford
Ann Forster
Beebe Frazer
Philip Fretz
Sarah Friebert
Rosalyn Fried
Jeffrey Fried
Sharon Friedman
Stephen Friedman
Jessica Fritzges
Harvey Fruman
Lynn Gaites
Ann Gardner
Helen Garton
Linda Gaskill
Susan Geller
Marion Gentul
Robin Gilbert
Peter Gilbert
Ed Gmoch
Fay Gold
Melvin Goldberg
Sadye Goldbloom
Robert Gonzalez
Audrey Gonzalez
Stuart Gordon
Susan Goudy
Jane Govatos
Amy Grace
Nettie Green
Sterling Green
Tom Griffith
Suzanne Gross
Joan Grozalis
Terence Gurley
Joann Gusdanovic
Henry Hain, III
John Hall
Christopher Hall
Chet Halleck
Barbara Halleck
Karl Haller
Rita Hanuschock
Judith Harbaugh
Rebecca Hardin
Mark Harris
Victoria Hauter
Donald Hecht
Margaret Hennesey
Richard Herzog
Barbara Herzog
Betsey Heuisler
Stanley Heuisler
Janet Higgins
Michael J. Higgins
Robert Hill
John Holl
Jeanne Holl
Larry Hooker
Mary Howard
Lesa Howard
Kristen Huber
Karen Hugues
Nan Hunter
Nate Hurto
Dawn Hurto
Phil Hutchison
Gary Jackoway
Fay Jacobs
Wendy Jacobs
Valorie Jarrell
Joan Jennings
Kathleen Jennings
William Johnson
Marty Johnson
Beth Joselow
Eric Kafka
Brenda Kahan
Larry Kahan
Gaye Kahigian
Mary Kaltreider
Fred Kaltreider
Jim Kane
Janet Kane
Anita Kaplan
Teresa Kauffman
Jon Kauffman
Jean P. Keats
Jennie Keith
Ken Keller
Barbara Kelly
Linda Kemp
Joanne Kempton
Frances Kendall
Janet Kennedy
Sandra Kennedy
Daniel Kinsella
Bonnie Kirkland
Dr. Carole A. Klase
Greg Kodjanian
Marcia Kolko
Jan Konesey
Eve Kovalchick
Charlene Kramer
Myra Kramer
Roger Kramer
Michael Krausz
Joan Kuriansky
Christine Lally
Carole Laspino-Franks
Christine Lay
Pat Layton
Elizabeth Layton
Emily Leader
Amy Lear
James Lee
Sally Lengel
Karen Levin
Paul Levine
Mimi Levine
Pat Lewis
Judie Linowes
Harry Linowes
Gary Lippe
Judy Lippe
Ed Livingston
Ginger Livingston
Constance Lohse
Tina Lucarelli
Wayne Lucarelli
Joyce Lussier
Doris Lustine
Susan Maclary
Penny MacLennan
Christopher Magaha
Patricia Magee
Gail Maidenbaum
Marcia Maldeis
Tom Mandel
Maryanne Manzi
Marti Marino
Harold Marmon
Juan Marroquin
Carolyn Marshall
Emily Marston
Mary (Betty) Martin
Herbert (Herb) Martin
Guy Martin
Kathryn Matassa
Don Matzkin
Cathy McCallister
Toni McClay
Bill McGee
Timothy McGlynn
Cathleen McGrath
James McIntyre
Deo McKaig
Alexis McKenzie
James McMahon
Kate McNamee
Betty Ann McNeil
Ann McNeil
Robert Meighan
Gail Meighan
Michele Meisart
Monte Meltzer
Cornelia Melvin
Charles Meyer, Jr.
Judith Meyers
Chuck Mezger
Joyce Michalek
Mary Miele
C. Richard Miller
Carl Mills
Laurie Mills
Stan Mills
Neal Minietta
Mary Miranda
Frank Miranda
Jessica Mong
Thomas Morris
Jody Morrison
Renee Murch
Robert Nadig
Paula Nadig
Gilbert Navarro
Keith Neale
Donna Nicholson
Christine Nixon
Konrad Noebel
Doris Northrup
Ashley Oland
Alan O’Leary
Sandra Oropel
James Ostendorf
Mary Jane Ostinato
Elena Padrell
Linda Palmer
Richard Palmer
Judith Palmer
George Palmer
Jay Pastore
Daniel Payne
Carol Pearson
Mary Peck
Anita Peghini-Raeber
Thomas Perkins
Jane Perkins
Connie Peterson
Marianne Petillo
Malcolm Peverley
Anne Pikolas
Guido Pittaccio
Jon Plowman
Mari Plowman
Robert Porta
Kathy Potts
Catherine Priest
Bonnie Quesenberry
Ryan Rainey
Julie Lynn Ramsey
Patricia Rayne
Valerie Reber
Helen Richards
Elaine Rifkin
Salvatore Rinaudo
Linda Rittenhouse
Carole Robbins
Jane Roberts
Elgene Roe
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Al Wann
Barbara Warnell
Shelley Wasserman
Charles Wasserman
Cleora Waters
Ellen Watkins
Bernice Weinacht
Denise Weiner
Shirley Weiner
Bobbie Wendel
Ed Wendel
Robert Wheland
Patricia Whiteside
Gail Whitman
John Wieseman
James Wigand
Herb Wilgis
Margaret Wilkins
Genevieve Wilson
Eugene Wilson
Gail Winkler
Paul Winkler
Bobbie H. Wolf
Carole Woodyard
Richard Wray
Karen Wray
Barbara Wright
Ed Wulkan
Elizabeth Wulkan
William Wyatt
Stephen Yaros
Judy Yeager
Herb Yeager
Michael Yost
Beth Yost
Winifred Young
Eric Youngdale
George Yu
Bill Zak
Kit Zak
Carol Zelenkowski
Carol Zimmerman
Yona Zucker
Gary Zupco
ASSOCIATE
PRODUCER LEVEL
Maria Acciarri
Jerry Acciarri
Sheri Ackerman
Robert Appleby
Joan Appleby
Sydney Arzt
Donna Atsidis
Gayle August
Terry August
Shannon Avery
Sarah Avery
Susan Baker
Ann Baldinger
Maud Banks
Johanna Barbati
Sue Bardsley
Jennifer Barrows
Jane Battles
Bernadine Bauer
Gregory Beal
Donna Beecher
Richard Belanger
Henry Black
Nancy Bouse
Tara Bowman
Carol Boyd-Heron
Tony Boyd-Heron
Paul Bradley
David Bradley, Jr.
Patty Brown
Evelyn Bryant
Jane Buckley
Tony Burns
Bernadine Butler
Howard Butler
Barbara Butta
Carole Calhoun
Cynthia Campbell
Brenda Carder
Rita L. Carey
Rose Cebular
Deepak Chatani
Sharon Cilento
Ralph Citino
Christophe Clark
Florence Confrey
Paul Confrey
Richard Contee
Gail Cooper
Richard Cooper
Pauline Copans
Sal Corrallo
Edward Cousins
Judith Cousins
Diana Cowell
Ginny Craig
Daniel Crampton
Joyce Dadant
Diane Daniel
Christine Davidson
Russell Davies
Harriet Davies
Susan Davison
Robert Davison
John DeCore
James Delaplane
Charlotte Dennis
Geri Dibiase
Max Dick
Patricia Dickinson
Richard Diefenbeck
Claire DiStefano
Arnold Donahue
Richard Doucette
Ruth Draper
Dorothy Duggan
Patricia Dukes
Robert Duncan
Brad Edwards
Mary Edwards
Steve Eichel
Arie Eisner
Fern Eisner
Mary Ann Elliott
Robin English
Candice Evans
Karen Faber
Alice Fagans
Robert Falb
Carolyn Falb
Susan Fazo
Debi Feder
Elissa Feldman
Katie Fitzpatrick
Jean Fleishman
David Fogle
Craig Forte
Bonnie Fox
Thomas Fox
Karen Frank
Alan Freed
Larry Fry
Jean Fry
Mark Fulco
Joan Gaffney
Nina Galerstein
Jo Ann Gallo
Mindy Gasthalter
Mary Gatanas
Harry Gatanas
Murry Gatlin
Yvonne Gatlin
Daniel Gaughan
Natalie Gilbert
Christine Gillespie
Jack Gingrich
Denise Giudice
Sue Glick
Carol Goldbach
Mary Gosselink
Jane Graham
Sue Graybill
Jane Guyer
Bernard Guyer
Roberta Hagen
Rosemary Hall
Cindy Hall
Lana Halpern
Catherine Hamill
Dorothy Hand
Pat Hansen
Janine Harrison
Matthew Hastings
Pat Hendrickson
James Herrell
Marilyn Hewitt
Jim Hickey
Bob Hoffer
Butch Hovis
Sheila Howe
Joanne Howes
Jake Hudson
Claudia Hughes
John Hulse
Jeff Hurdle
Andrea Illig
Diane Issel
Dianne Jacobini
Charles Jacobini
Donna Jones
Connie Jones
Carol Jones
Ann Jornlin
Frank Jornlin
Lynne Judd
Barbara Kaplan
Barbara Katz
Philip Katz
Janice Keane
Philip K. Keats
Esther Kernosh
Margot Kia
Charlotte King
Beatrice King
Michael King
William Kinser
Anne Kirby
Richard Klaus
Frances Kling
Jennifer Knighton
Stacey Kochanek
Joyce Koeneman
Joan Kostelnik
Sandy Koubek
Steven Krasnow
Elizabeth Krushinskie
Catherine Kulpinski
Mary Lamoureux
Mathilda Laschenski
Cristiana Lazo
Leslie Ledogar
Iris Lefever
James Lefever
Sally Lentz
Carolyn Lester
Marsha Levine
Alexander Lincoln
Amy Linthicum
Dana Long
William Lowery
Daniel Lyons
Sally Lyston
Joan Madeksza
Henry A. Madeksza
Mimi Mager
Norma Martin
Toni Mason
Ruth Ann Mattingly
Susan McCarthy
Kevin McGuiness
Kathy McGuiness
Karen McKinnon
Steve McLerran
Holly Melzer
Howard Menaker
Elizabeth Metzler
Rene Guy Mongeau
Jo Ann Moore
Robert Moore
Judy Moore
Margaret Moore
Norma Morrison
Greg Mullen
Barbara Mullin
Mary Murdoch
John Murray
Tish Murray
Lee Mussoff
Bee Neild, III
Jerry Newberry
Carl Newman
Jon Newsom
Iris Newsom
Ann Nolan
Russ Notar
Ellen Notar
Margaret O’Connell
Mark O’Donnell
Joan O’Neill
Isabell Ortiz
David Osborn
Sharon O’Shannessy
Kristina Owens
Perry Palan
Sophie Papanikolaou
Susan Pappas
Frank Pappas
Conrad Paulus
Dan Pearce
Christopher Pellegrino
Beverly Peltz
Paul Penniman
Barbara Perry
Mimi Peters
Peter Pizzolongo
Barry Pokrass
Gloria Pound
Marc Pound
Chris Powers
Susan Powers
Carlos Prugue
Don Quinn
Jodi Renbaum
Patricia Renninger
Timothy Ring
James Riordan
Sandra Roberts
Tricia Roberts
Regina Rodger
Fredrick Rodger
Merle Rose
Nadyne Rosin
Alvin Ross
Susan Rubin
Richard Rubin
Teresa Rudolph
Susan Sands
Everett Santos
Barbara Santos
Pankaj Sanwal
Vincent Saporito
Lynn Sawlivich
Ronald Schaeffer
Patricia Schaeffer
Charlene Scharf
Ruth Schetman
Tom Schoeninger
Lynda Schoeninger
Geoffrey Schulz
Craig Sencindiver
Everett Shawen
David Sher
Ellen Sher
Carole Sheridan
Sharon Sherwood
Van Sherwood
Everett Sillers
Brenda Sims
Karen Skarlatos
Anexora Skvirsky
Alan Skvirsky
Mary Slattery
Renee Slobasky
Jamee Smith
Lawrence Sneed
Path Snyder
Neil Steinberg
Betty Stevens
David Stevens
Mary Stuart
Michael Sweeney
Linda G. Sweeney
John Sykes
Joseph Tarantolo
Barbara Teal
Lorraine Terraneo
Sally Thayer
David Theil
Dorothy Thibault
Charlene Thomas
David Thomas
David Thomas
Kathleen Thompson
Jo Ellen Thompson
Joy Tomer
John Travis
Brittany VanBuskirk
Adria VanBuskirk
Don Voth
Jennifer Walker
Brendan Walsh
Richard Ward
Margaret Ward
Richard Warden
Barbara Warden
Tom Warner
Lori-Christina Webb
Jeannette Webber
Paul Webster
Ann Weir
Carol West
Louise White
Penny White
Lisa Whitehouse
Mark Widoff
Janet Widoff
Aimee Wiest
Paula Williams
LaVonne Wontorek
Mary Wood
Jolene Wood
Jean Woodman
Linda Wymbs
Bill Zimmer
Debbie Zimmer
Donald Zimmerman
Judith Zucker
Film Buff Level
Becky Abel
Annemarie Albaugh
Cheryl Anderson
Brook Andrews
Sarah Barnett
Victoria Barstow
Agnes Bender
Walter Bender
Tom Biesiadny
Linda Blake
Donna Blomquist
Linda Blumner
Josee Bouchard
Carolyn Bruce
Thomas Bruce
Joseph Burgess
Sam Cagnina
Vicky Cairns
Robin Carney
Michael Chenette
March Coleman
Linda Comdico
Joyce Condry
Jim Condry
Cal Copp
Eduardo Corredera
Ann Couzens
Harry Crowley
Georgia Dalzell
Maryellen Davis
Linda Dean
Jay Delozier
Wendi Dennis
Joe Donahue
Linda Ekizian
Steve Fanto
Kelly Fanto
Jim Favret
Margaret Ferguson
Jose Fernandez
Irene Fick
B. A. Fisher
Leslie Fitzgerald
Laurel Fountain
Michael Fountain
Debbi Frank
Joanne Gartenman
Lois Gillespie
Maureen Gilligan
Ann Gillooly
Karina Golden
James Grahne
Linda Grahne
Clarke Griffith
Jackie Gropman
Alan Gropman
Lyle Haas
Susan Hayes
Helen Heinemann
Alice Hendry
Amy Herb
Rebecca Hollinger
Robert Hotes
Debra Houck
Dale Houck
Joy Howell
Diane Huber
Lisa Hutchins
James Hutchins
Jean Insolia
Jean Jacobson
Kathleen Jay
Helane Jeffreys
Larry Jilk
Marcia Jilk
Cindy Johnson
Kevin Jones
Don Kaufman
Susan Kazala
Michael Kazala
Barbara Keate
Malcolm Keen
Kae Keister
Cullen Kelly
Susan Kelly
Wendy Kessler
Dean Kotlowski
Cindy Kurlanzik
Arthur Kurlanzik
Andree Lavu
Gerald Lechliter
Leon Levin
Marianne Levin
Dana MacElrevey
Dan Mahoney
Sarna Marcus
Marlene McCauley
Terri McCauley
Sybil McKennon
Robin Miller
Glenn Mills
Marsha Mills
Teresa Misiolek
Wojciech Misiolek
Angela Morris
Joan Mueller
Terry O’Byrne
Lowell Owens
Marjorie Owens
Elvira Pamintuan
Marilyn Panagopoulos
Fred Panico
E.J. (Elvira) Panico
Sheila Patterson
Mary Patterson
Joel Peters
Karen Pharr
Nije Pinder
Lillian S. Poole
Brad Posadas
James Prescott
Carolyn Quinn
Margene Reeder
Ralph Reeder
George Reissig
Cindy Richards
Eric Roache
Randy Roberts
Diane Sahakian
Robert Scannell
Jacob Schiavo
Judith Schuda
Richard Sciorra
Joan Sciorra
Peggy Selph
Greg Shupe
Patty Soffronoff
Ernie Soffronoff
Carole Somers
Milton Somers
Polly Stark
Tamara Steele
Neil Stevenson
Judith Stout
Patricia Tiernan
Sweeney
Jack Sweeney
Frances Taylor
Stuart Taylor
Simon Teitel
Chris Theim
Carolyn Theim
Charles Tilney
Ralph Tullie
Judy Turner
Bruce Vander-Clute
Mary Ann Waelde
Brigitte Walsh
Aida Waserstein
Bob Wasserbach
Lee Watkins
Marie Westhaver
Donna Whiteside
Robert Wilson
Lynn Wilson
Greg Wimsatt
Linda Wolf
Holly Wright
Tony Wright
Midge Yearley
Vincent Zucal
STUDENT LEVEL
Catherine Bender
Carly Marconi
Jennifer Price
Jacqueline Wenk
Members
Patricia Romaine
Richard Ronan
Josephine Ronan
Jay Rooney
Charles Rorbach
Barry Rosenthal
Joan Rosenthal
Linda Rosenzweig
Terry Roth
Jennifer Rothgeb
Sally Roy
Carol Rudolph
Michelle Rumble
Gail Russell
Tom Ryan
Susan Salkin
Christina Samson
Carole Sandy
William Schab
Wendy Schadt
Felicia Schembri
Peggy Schiff
Ronald Schiff
Betsy Schmidt
Peter Schott
Phil Schreiber
Sharon Schreter
Robert Schreter
Jane Schubert
Susan Schwelling
Glen Sea
Gloria Segree
Jonathan Sharp
Gwyneth Sharp
Jean Shaw
Mary Shea
Susan Sherman
Nancy Shobe
David Shotwell
Cynthia Silverblatt
Bud Simon
Nadia Simon
Joanne Sinsheimer
Gail Smith
Jeanne Smith
Jeff Socorso
Jeanne Solomon
Gloria Soto
Philip Soucy
James Sowers
Madge Lee Spector
Richard Sprague
Janet Sprague
Dave Stabile
Pat Staby
Hiba Stancofski
Erik Stancofski
Luanne Stanley
Marc Stanley
Wave Starnes
Barbara Steinke
Mary Ann Stewart
Jill Stokes
David Storms
Ellen Stovall
John Stovall
Scott Strickler
Cathy Strodel
Karen Stroney
Sandra Sullivan
Kate Supplee
Patricia Swed
Aleta Thompson
Suzanne Thurman
Vicki Topel
Avrim Topel
Cecelia Toth
Michael Treger
Joanne Tromposch
Rosalind Troupin
Stephen Tschida
Maria Turner
Raymond Turner
Ed Turner, Jr.
Michael Tyler
Dana Ulery
Jeremiah Underhill
Steven Vandevander
Paula Varrassi
Nancy Veret
Barton Veret
Monica Viana
Gloria Walls
Carolyn Walter
Craig Walter
Phyllis Wann
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Film Society Contributors
The Rehoboth Beach Film Society thanks the following individuals, businesses,
and foundations who made a financial donation to an endowment fund, the
annual campaign, a program, and/or for general operating expenses during
the period of 9/10/10 – 8/22/11.
Every contribution is greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
Cynthia S. Albright
Lewes Public Library
John F. Anderson
Ginger & Ed Livingston
Pat Antonisse
Sarna Marcus
Deborah Appleby
Mary & Herb Martin
Johannah Barry
Lee McCraw-Leavitt
John Barry, Jr.
Timothy McGlynn
Carol Bresler
James McIntyre
Jane Buckley
Natalie Moss
CA, Inc
Naomi Mus
Tammy & Stan Chincheck
John Newton & Mowry Spencer
James Chupella & James Wigand
Alan O’Leary
Valerie Cloutier
Lowell & Marjorie Owens
Robert Cloutier
Conrad Paulus
Jackson & Ellen Coppley
Eve & Kit Pilgrim
Richard Culver
Teresa Rudolph
Diane Daum
Michelle Rumble
Julie Davis & John Metz
John Sabo & Alan Harmon
Exxon Mobile Foundation
Perrin Smith & Patrick Gaffney
Irene Fick
Barbara Steinke
Mike Fountain, Write Brain Films
Jill Stokes & Lois Cortese
Don Gardiner & Lee Wayne Mills
Joan Thompson
Lois Gillespie
Avrim & Vicki Topel
Alice Hendry
Rosalind Troupin
Barbara Hindin
Raymond & Maria Turner
Anita Kaplan & Sadye Glodbloom
Edward Turner
Kae Keister & Rebecca Hollinger
Dana Ulery
Joanne Kempton
Verizon Foundation
Deborah Kennedy & Malora Buck
Carolyn Walter & Bruce Byren
Joyce Koenemon
Barbara Warnell
Steven Krasnow & Patricia Dickinson
Aimee Wiest & Charlotte King
Joan Kuriansky
Alexander Yearley
Law Office of Edward Gill
Anita & John Lenz
M. Walter Levine
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offering you access to entertaining,
thought-provoking, and diverse film
events year-round including:
• Cinema Cabaret (dinner and film series)
• Delmarva Roots (history-themed
film series)
• Monthly Screenings (independent features,
documentaries & shorts)
• Around the World (international film series)
• Cinema & Art (bringing art and artists to
the screen)
• Fun with Filmmaking (children’s summer
program)
• Another Take (gay and lesbian-themed
film series)
• Special events and student/youth programs
All members receive the
following core benefits:
• Discounted admission to monthly
screenings
• Discount admission to select RBFS events
• Newsletter (three per year) sent by regular
post or email, your choice
• Advance notice of Film Society events
• Souvenir Festival program with your name
listed
• Complimentary access to RBFS film
library
• Early Box Office admission for purchase of
Festival tickets to that day’s screenings
• Two tickets per film title for individual
members, four tickets per film title for
couple members
• Advanced ticket purchasing privilege
beginning 7:00 pm on Friday
The satisfaction of helping to bring the art of
independent film to local communities.
2011 Membership Application
The Film Society is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Contributions are considered
charitable for federal income tax purposes and may be deducted to the fullest extent
of the law. Return completed form with a check payable to RBFS or provide credit
card information in the space at the bottom of this page. Thank you for your support!
New Member
Renewing Member Gift Membership
Student
$20 individual
Full-time students with a current photo ID qualify for a discounted membership with core
benefits listed on this page.
Film Buff
$35 individual
$55 couple
Film Buff members receive the core benefits listed on this page.
•May purchase tickets for remaining Festival films on Friday evening beginning at 7 pm
Associate Producer $65 individual
$105 couple
Associate Producer members receive the core benefits listed on this page plus:
•May purchase tickets for entire Festival with one trip to the Tent Box Office beginning
on Wednesday (Note: Advanced ticket sales on Wednesday are for AP members only.)
Executive Producer $130 individual $220 couple
Executive Producer members receive the core benefits listed on this page plus:
•Pre-Festival ticket purchasing with one order
•Complimentary Festival film vouchers, 1 per individual membership
or 2 per couple membership
Director
$265 individual
$480 couple
Director members receive the core benefits listed on this page plus:
• Pre-Festival ticket purchasing with one order
•Complimentary Festival film vouchers, 2 per individual membership
or 4 per couple membership
•Complimentary beverage card for Festival booth (5 drink card for
individual, 10 drink card for couple)
•Priority seating at Festival films for member badge holder
•Complimentary Festival souvenir poster
•20% discount on the purchase of one short-sleeve Festival T-shirt
Contributing Director
$400 individual
$600 couple
•All of the Director benefits plus sponsorship of one Festival film which includes
name mention as film sponsor in Festival program, a complimentary ticket to
selected film, and opportunity to introduce film.
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save the date for the popular, annual film series
What Makes Us Tick? is a three-part analytical film series that explores aspects of the human experience.
Each film includes a post-screening discussion led by a mental health professional. For 2012, the series
theme is Lost and Found: Journeys of Self Discovery.
At what age does one fully become him/herself, and can this developed personality be changed at all? Three
films will portray protagonists whose experiences alter their very sense of self. All three lead characters
begin as confident, contributing members of society. Through unexpected events, each one becomes
emotionally lost. As they embark on an individual journey to self-exploration, they may experience a
reconnection with people from the past or form new relationships. Whatever the path taken, each journey
leads to the discovery of a new person inside.
The Visitor
Fri [Jan 13, 2012] 7:00 pm
Moderator: Charlotte King
Having lost his passion for teaching and writing, Walter Vale is sleepwalking through life. He gets a rude awakening when sent to a
work conference in Manhattan. There he finds that a young immigrant couple has taken up residence in his apartment. Victims of a real
estate scam, Tarek, a Syrian man and Zainab, his Senegalese girlfriend, have nowhere else to go. Walter reluctantly allows the couple
to stay with him. Touched by his kindness, Tarek insists on teaching the aging academic to play the African drum. A friendship between
the two men grows, and their differences in culture, age, and personality fall away. While Walter blossoms into a new person, tragedy
brings Tarek’s beautiful mother, Mouna, to Manhattan. Walter, now personally committed to helping his new friends and awakened to
a new world, may soon discover his new life may bring him an unlikely romance.
[2007, USA, Runtime: 108 min., Rated; PG-13, in English, French, Arabic, and Romanian, with English subtitles]
As It Is In Heaven
Sat [Jan 14, 2012] 2:00 pm
Moderator: Perrin Smith
This heartwarming Oscar®-nominated Swedish drama focuses on Daniel Dareus, a famous, successful, internationally known
conductor forced into early retirement by health issues. He returns to the tiny village in which he grew up where he was bullied as a
small, nerdy, music-loving child. Before long, the residents of his hometown take advantage of having a musical expert in their midst
by first drawing him to listen to the church choir, then advising, and finally leading. Daniel’s growing involvement with the choir gains
him friends and enemies. Can love and forgiveness help Daniel rediscover his joy for music, and heal a community?
[2004, Sweden, Runtime: 132 min, Not rated, in Swedish with English subtitles]
The Fisher King
Sun [Jan 15, 2012] 2:00 pm
Moderator: Roy Fitzgerald
Mythical story elements that have recurred in various stories throughout time are deeply intertwined in the storyline of The Fisher King.
Jeff Bridges stars as Jack Lucas, an arrogant, cynical radio talk show host whose on air comments inspire a mass murder. Racked
with guilt over this, Lucas attempts suicide one night only to be rescued by a delusional homeless man named Parry (Robin Williams).
Lucas discovers that Parry’s current condition was caused by the loss of his wife in the very same mass murder that so affected his own
life. Feeling obligated, Lucas seeks to redeem himself by helping Parry at least find love, if not a meaningful life, again. In the process,
Lucas gets drawn into Parry’s obsessions with the legend of the Fisher King, the guardian of the Grail, and the horrific Red Knight that
haunts Parry. The ancient mythology evident in Parry’s delusions guides Lucas, as it has guided human for centuries, to becoming a
new person.
[1991, USA, Runtime: 137 min, Rated R]
Location and admission to be announced.
The Rehoboth Beach Film Society thanks the WMUT? Committee for their volunteer service in selecting this year’s theme and searching for the best corresponding films.
Committee members are: Roy Fitzgerald, Kathryn Harris, Beth Joselow, Charlotte King, and Jay Schiavo. A special thanks to chairperson Perrin Smith, for leading the group.
What makes us tick?
What makes us tick?
Gu i de t o ou r Adv e rt i s e r s
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A GUIDE TO OUR ADVERTISERS
KEY SPONSORS
AmericInn Lodge & Suites
PLACES TO EAT/DRINK
Arena’s Café / 5 points
11
Applied Bank
38
11
Arena’s Café / 5 points
11
11
11
Café Azafrán
85
11
go fish! Seafood Restaurant
85
Half Full
78
Beachcomber
5
Inside Cover
Boardwalk Builders
35
29
Cape Gazette
23
Kindle Restaurant
78
CAMP Rehoboth 10
Nage
79
35
Nicola Pizza
29
Nourish
27
Preshy’s Gallery Restaurant
79
SoDel Concepts
77
Striper Bites Bistro
78
26
2
Surf Bagel
40
Hole By Hole
38
The Buttery
72
Jack Lingo Realtor
40
The Pickled Pig Pub
72
29
Timothy’s at the beach
28
17
27
Nicola Pizza
29
Nourish
27
REAL ESTATE & REALTORS
28
Coldwell Banker Resort Realty
65
40
Jack Lingo Realtor
40
27
28
40
40
26
27
Delaware Coast Press
Inside Cover
Delaware Division of the Arts
1
38
delmarvanow!.com
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery
Timothy’s at the beach
Inside Cover
35
4
28
Inside Back
27
29
WXPN FM
7
103
PLACES TO SHOP
SERVICES
Anything Goes
64
Applied Bank
38
Berlin Main Street
49
Beach Tans & Hair Designs
93
Boxwood Home
93
Bell Rock Capital
83
Buddas & Beads
85
Boardwalk Builders
35
Candy Kitchen
73
CAMP Rehoboth 10
Josephine’s Daughter
64
35
Just Looking Upscale Resale
64
Community Pride Financial Advisors, LLC
85
Lewes Mercantile Antique Gallery
58
38
Made by Hand International Cooperative
83
Dont Buy The Bull.com
83
Pottery Place
79
Hole By Hole
38
Proud Bookstore
93
Lank Johnson & Tull
78
South Moon Under
55
Lewes Chamber of Commerce
83
R & L Liquors
58
17
Rehoboth Art & Framing
93
Moor Disposal Service, Inc.
93
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney
93
Teller Wines
84
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
54
The Stepping Stone
65
State Farm Insurance
84
27
Sussex County Assn of Realtors
63
40
The Tides Behavioral Health
93
4
Entertainment/The Arts
Clear Space Theater Company
73
Coastal Concerts
64
Wilgus Associates, Inc.
84
29
Delaware Division of the Arts
1
35
Rehoboth Art League
77
Media
rehobothart.com
79
Beachcomber
7
Cape Gazette
WXPN FM
Delaware Beach Life
PLACES TO STAY
AmericInn Lodge & Suites
5
Back Cover
Inside Cover
23
104
Delaware Coast Press
Inside Cover
delmarvanow!.com
Inside Cover
INN at Canal Square
58
Royal Rose Inn
64
WXPN FM
Sleep Inn & Suites
84
35
7
Guide to our advertisers
A GUIDE TO OUR ADVERTISERS
RBFS shines Year-round!
Check future event times
www.rehobothfilm.com
Become
a -member
and enjoy independent
film- provide
anda screening
special
Another Take
is a series featuring gay and lesbianMONTHLY SCREENINGS
of an
themed films. [Co-sponsored with CAMP Rehoboth]
independent film every fourth Thursaday in Ocean View and
events year-round.
every fourth Friday in Rehoboth Beach [September – May].
Around the World - offers a monthly film screening
of international films followed by a discussion on the first
Wednesday of each month, 7:00 pm at the Movies at Midway.
The event is free and open to the public. [Co-sponsored with the
Lewes Public Library and Movies at Midway]
Cinema & Art - brings art and artists to the big screen.
[Co-sponsored with the Rehoboth Art League and The
INN at Canal Square]
CINEMA CABARET - is a dinner film series at a local
restaurant.
DELMARVA ROOTS - features films about the rich history
of the Delmarva region. [Three part series co-sponsored with the
Milton Historical Society]
FESTIVAL FILM REVIEWS - aspiring film critics can be
MORRIS AND ROSLYN FIERBERG STUDENT FILM
AWARD - an award designed to encourage student film
production by acknowledging the outstanding work of a student
film director with a financial award on an annual basis.
On screen/in person - is a touring program of
new independent, American films, including animation,
documentaries, experimental, and narrative work accompanied
by the filmmaker. [Support provided by the Mid-Atlantic Arts
Foundation and Delaware Division of the Arts]
SUMMER OUTDOOR SCREENINGS - cinema by the
Canal and Cinema by the Surf provide families with a wonderful
experience of watching films outdoors.
WHAT MAKES US TICK? - a film and discussion series
a part of the film selection process. Review sessions are held in
Rehoboth Beach and Bethany Beach during the summer months.
that explores aspects of the human experience. The 2012
January series will focus on Lost & Found: Journeys of selfdiscovery.
FUN WITH FILMMAKING - a summer series which
AND MORE… You never know what fun new event will
introduces children (ages 7 to 10 years) to the basics of
filmmaking. The program is offered in collaboration with
community-based libraries.
be offered so sign up for our Weekly Update emails by visiting
www.rehobothfilm.com.
Mark your calendar now! Next year’s festival:
{
Nov 7 – 11, 2012
}
302-645-9095 / www.rehobothfilm.com

2011 membership application - Rehoboth Beach Film Society

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